Fashion in Films: Funny Face (1957)

With this post, I'm officially launching a new section in the blog called 'Fashion in Films', in which movies that somehow catched my eye and I believe of importance regarding fashion will be visually reviewed.
I'm happy to start up the section with one of my all-time favourites, the 1957 lovable musical Funny Face, starring delightful actress and my personal style icon Audrey Hepburn.

Plot:

Fred Astaire plays fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's "visual consultant"), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a "new face". It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair).

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