grace Kelly, beyond the icon
I just went to the Grace Kelly exhibit at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. It will be there until January 26, 2014. What a great show!! All of those beautiful dresses Princess Grace wore in movies, such as the Country Girl for which she won an Oscar, home movies from when she was a girl prancing on the beach in Ocean City, NJ, and gorgeous photos and other memorabilia from her 1956 marriage to Prince Rainier.
Princess Grace was the FIRST Princess Di. A beautiful American actress who gave it all up to become a real live princess. As a princess she sponsored cultural events, helped the people of Monaco, and gave very glamorous balls. I particularly liked the magnificent costumes she wore to the balls. Great headpieces made of ornate gold sculptures, buoyant sleeves in the tradition of the gilded age.
She had a tiny waist, and as the exhibit stated, her style was "elegance discrete." A beautiful simplicity with magnificent sparkling organza, detailing from the great designers of the day. They don't make clothes or movie stars like that today.
The exhibit makes no mention of the car crash that took her life. This too, sadly, is like Princess Di. A fairytale life ending in tragedy.
Princess Grace was the FIRST Princess Di. A beautiful American actress who gave it all up to become a real live princess. As a princess she sponsored cultural events, helped the people of Monaco, and gave very glamorous balls. I particularly liked the magnificent costumes she wore to the balls. Great headpieces made of ornate gold sculptures, buoyant sleeves in the tradition of the gilded age.
She had a tiny waist, and as the exhibit stated, her style was "elegance discrete." A beautiful simplicity with magnificent sparkling organza, detailing from the great designers of the day. They don't make clothes or movie stars like that today.
The exhibit makes no mention of the car crash that took her life. This too, sadly, is like Princess Di. A fairytale life ending in tragedy.
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