Edith Head’s costume sketch for Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design

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Grace Kelly posing outside her apartment building in 1956
Photographed by Lisa Larsen

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Grace Kelly in 1952
Photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld

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Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955)
Costume design by Edith Head

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The Victoria & Albert Museum in London will have an exhibition called “Grace Kelly: Style Icon” from April 17 to September 26. There will be over 50 of Grace Kelly’s outfits, together with hats, jewellery and the the original Hermès Kelly bag. Dresses from her films will be shown, as well as the gown she wore for her Oscar award in 1955, and her haute couture gowns from the 60s and 70s. There will also be film clips and posters, photographs and her Oscar statuette.

For my readers in London, this looks like an exhibition definitely worth seeing.

For those who can’t get there, you can get the new book “Grace Kelly Style: Fashion for Hollywood’s Princesses”, which is an accompanient to the exhibition and can be ordered through Amazon.

lovelygirls:

alittlebitofgrace:

chantillylacex11:

We need an occasional reminder of Grace Kelly in a world where Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn dominate.

Indeed.

Grace Kelly is pretty in pink, 1953

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Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn backstage at the Oscars in 1955