Currently Viewing – How to Steal a Million

In 1966, Audrey Hepburn and her Givenchy wardrobe starred in How to Steal a Million, not her best movie, but one of the best collaborations between Hepburn and Givenchy.  In short, he nailed her look.  In a famous line from the movie, Peter O’Toole even comments on the designer’s role in the film.  O’Toole’s character, upon inspecting the cleaning lady’s ensemble Audrey is to wear declares, “Well, for one thing, it gives Givenchy a night off!”

During the 1950s, Givenchy had done a line of patterns for McCall’s, some of them obviously inspired by the movie Sabrina.  But this time, the four patterns by Givenchy were adapted directly from the movie wardrobe.  All are suits or ensembles of jacket and dress, which Hepburn wore almost exclusively throughout the movie.  These patterns are actually quite hard to find.  In five years of searching, I’ve located only one of them:

which is this suit from the film:

The others, just in case someone out there has one…

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All photos from the July 1966 McCall’s magazine.

From the McCall’s Home Sewing Catalog, Spring/Summer, 1966