Grace Kelly, the enemy of disposable style
Gotta love it. The iconic Hollywood Ice Queen, the Princess of Monaco, the blond so cool you almost feel a chill even through her cinematic gaze, was a thrifty girl.
Well. As thrifty as royalty can get, but still, Princess Grace could teach today’s red-carpet hoofers a thing or two about holding on to and repeating outfits.
See, there’s an exhibition of her stuff at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and, as the Guardian puts it:
Kelly used the bag to hide her baby bump.
The scuffs and marks on the handbag are evidence that, despite her high-maintenance image, Grace Kelly was surprisingly thrifty with her wardrobe. The signs of wear and tear make it clear she continued to carry the same handbag for many years – a sharp contrast to the habits of modern celebrities, who avoid wearing the same outfit twice. Victoria Beckham is believed to own more than 100 Hermès Birkin handbags in different sizes, styles and colours, a collection with a retail value of over $2m (£1.3m).
Yes! Don’t you just find it disgusting that people — maybe even your friends — will buy a dress and wear it just once to some event and never again?
The waste. Oh. Sickening. Clothes are meant to be worn over and over again.
Kelly became sentimental about clothes she associated with good memories, and the exhibition includes several more examples of the surprisingly hard-working wardrobe which underpinned the Grace Kelly fairytale. A pale blue gown made for Kelly to wear to a 1954 premiere by Edith Head, the legendary Paramount studios costume designer, is the very same dress which Kelly wore to collect her Oscar for The Country Girl the following year, and then again for a cover of Life magazine.
God. Good for her. What would it take to popularize this mindset today? Now and again you’ll see a magazine (almost mockingly) call out a celeb for wearing the same thing twice, or carrying the same bag around for a month. It’s all about disposable fashion v. enduring style.
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