Wednesday, May 4, 2011

HARPER'S BAZAAR PRESENTS: RICHARD AVEDON - AUDREY HEPBURN - MEL FERRER - PARIS PURSUIT









ANGUS & JULIA STONE - PAPER AEROPLANE



HARPER'S BAZAAR - PARIS PURSUIT
SEPTEMBER 1959



SCENE: GARE DU NORD




JEMIMA:  Monsieur, Je suis ravie d'avoir fait votre connaissance. J'espere tant vos revoir. A bientot, a tout a l'heure...


DALLAS: (to himself)  Goldernit, ignorance is a rope around your neck! Me meeting a pretty little pinto like this'n, and can't understand a word of the lingo




Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer - Audrey is wearing Dior's grey flannel turned under at a deep knee band.





Buster Keaton waits with luggage by Vuitton, Hermes. 







SCENE: OUTSIDE GARE DU NORD


JEMIMA: Oh Simone, Simone, what a ring-a-ding divine guy! Why do I always have to be such a show-off and a fool?  What devil drives me!  Why did I pretend to be French!


Audrey Hepburn wears Nina Ricci white coat carved in Garigue wool fleece








DALLAS:  Giddayap, Thunderbrow,  hit the trail for the Ritz!


Audrey Hepburn wears Nina Ricci's puff-sleeved peplum suit wrapped with a 5" cinch






SCENE:  THE RITZ


CONCIERGE:  Je m'excuse, Monsieur Thunderbrow, but we have not the suites avec le weegwam.


DALLAS: (to himself)   Can't kick that cute little palomino out of my head. How's a man gonna' corral one French filly in a herd of them as big as this?




JEMIMA:  Don't cry, Simone. Seven feet of Texas can't disappear, not even in Paris. We'll just go out and find him.


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior's puffed tunic skirt in a bare-armed dinner dress worn with a matching jacket




DALLAS:  You must know her. Sure you know her. Anybody'd know her.  Why, you'd know her by her eyes!


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior




SCENE:  LE COMMISSARIAT DE POLICE


JEMIMA:  Well, no, he hasn't committed a crime. No, he's not my husband. He isn't even a friend.  Not really.  Not exactly.  I want to find him because...just because...because, golly.  I guess he's the man I love.


Audrey Hepburn wears Cardin




SCENE:  MAXIM'S ON FRIDAY NIGHT


JEMIMA:  I  hope you don't think I'm that kind of girl or anything.  The only reason I spoke to you, without really knowing you, is, well... there's something about you that reminds me of someone.


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior's white crystallized puffed tunic silhouette




SCENE:  MOULIN ROUGE, SAME NIGHT


1st COCOTTE:  ( speaking to Thunderbrow)  Je m'excuse, Monsieur, but here they do not serve la Prairie Oyster!




2nd COCOTTE: ( ZSA ZSA GABOR)  Why do you go on speaking about this one girl with her eyes! Come along , bebe, we'll show you eyes - and lips - and legs.  We'll show you le vrai Paris!


Zsa Zsa Gabor wears Heim





IT WAS SATURDAY.  THEN IT WAS SUNDAY.  THE DAYS WENT BY AS IN A DREAM


Audrey Hepburn wears Cardin's drop waist belted tunic and  Guy Laroche's doublet-paneled tunic dress





EVERYWHERE JEMIMA WENT, AND EVERYWHERE SHE LOOKED...
Audrey Hepburn wears Michel Goma and Cardin


Audrey Hepburn wears Dior and Chanel


China Machado  wears Gres Great-collared greatcoat and  Cardin's pale faille evening dress



SCENE:  UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER

DALLAS:  We've been camping under this oil derrick for six days now.  Guidebook said it was the crossroads of Paris, and still no sign of her.  Pack up, Thunderbrow, let's blow this town and climb the highest mountain we can find! 





JEMIMA:  We may as well give up.  I guess I'm just doomed to be one of those spinsters wo lives alone and feeds cats.  Oh dear, I am sorry, Simone.  I didn't mean to be mean.  I just don't know any more what I'm saying or doing!  We'll leave today, now, quickly, go where there's nothing but skies and peace.


Audrey Hepburn wears Chanel's gold-etched pullover






SCENE:  THE ITALIAN ALPS


Audrey Hepburn wears Patrick de Barentzen

MEL FINDS AUDREY HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN TOP



Audrey Hepburn wears Antonio de Luca's Peruvian tunic wedding dress

THE END

RICHARD AVEDON
AUDREY HEBURN
MEL FERRER
BUSTER KEATON
ZSA ZSA GABOR
ANNETTE STROYBERG
ART BUCHWALD

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