Author says Hepburn wasn’t into fashion

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We’re not alone in disliking the Gap ad featuring Audrey Hepburn dancing to AC/DC. According to this story, Donald Spoto, author of the just-released Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn, says the actress actually never got all tied up in her, uh, designer panties over the issue of fashion. He says, her position as a style icon "directly contradicts her own sense of values, which did not place clothes very highly on a list of important things."

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