A WOMAN OF GREAT DIGNITY

Audrey Hepburn’s place in the pantheon of immortal style was assured the moment she stepped out of a yellow cab on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to check out the sparklers in Tiffany’s window.

A look imitated by millions of women throughout the world, when that iconic Givenchy dress was auctioned at Christie’s in 2006, it sold for £467,000.

Presenting the BBC’S trend-setting series The

Clothes Show it was Hepburn’s sense of fashion that became our guiding star.

Unlike many of Hollywood’s leading ladies, Hepburn was nonthreatening to other women. Like many young girls, I grew up under the influence of her 24-carat allure, and in particular her passion for cashmere. Indeed, as part of my own online cashmere range, I have sourced “The Hepburn” – a luxurious navy cashmere travel wrap of the kind she never left home without – as a tribute.

When I produced and presented a documentary about Donald Trump, a lover of pneumatic blondes, he told me of his great admiration for Hepburn and how the opening scene of Breakfast at

Tiffany’s had so dazzled him, he erected Trump Tower adjacent to the store. He even named his daughter to Marla, his second wife, Tiffany.

Though Hepburn’s difficult early years left her desperately unsure of herself, she always remained just as her image had dictated: a woman of great dignity, and reference point for the best of femininity.

Selina Scott presented BBC’S The Clothes Show The Square Rock Group will host ‘Remembering Audrey Hepburn’ on Oct 6 at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel to raise money for Lymphoma Action and EURORDIS – Rare Diseases Europe. Tickets available at: remembering audreyhepburn.com