Anyone who knows me knows that I am an enormous fan of Audrey Hepburn. I’ve loved her ever since I was a little girl and my mom let me stay at home from school one afternoon because they were showing Breakfast at Tiffany’s on the “3:00 Movie” (right after “Love, American Style“- hey, I haven’t thought about that in ages!!) Anyway, you can imagine how thrilled I was yesterday to meet Mr. Hubert de Givenchy at a lunch reception that I helped to organize at the Mona Bismarck Foundation. He was so charming and debonnaire- as only a friend and confidant of Audrey’s could be. I can’t tell you what we said to each other, although I’m sure we must have exchanged 2 or 3 sentences each. Unfortunately, I am one of those people that starts chatting insanely when they get nervous (lucky for me I’m usually as cool as a cucumber). PLUS, I have this weird social- Tourette’s thing: Whenever I know I’m not supposed to say something, I have this crazy compulsion to say it anyway (like the time I said a teensy swear word during a job interview, or the time I was in a restaurant and told the woman at the table next to ours that she had spinach in her teeth- that kind of stuff.) Anyway, as I was speaking with Mr Givenchy, it took all my earthly power not to say, “Hand me my lipstick, dahling!” so I just clammed up, which was probably the wisest thing to do, because in this photo I think I see just the tiniest daub of mustard on Mr Givenchy’s cheek…(just joking!!)
Kim Petyt meets Mr. Hubert de Givenchy
Kim:
Talk about a once in a lifetime encounter! Everyone should meet that one person who just stuns them - and Mr. Givenchy seems to be that person! What a way to end 2007!
Hey Kim,
So cool that you got to meet Givenchy.! I’m green with envy.
We have to talk some time about the lifelong-since-childhood Audrey thing AND the weird social-Tourette’s thing which I also have big time, at worst times!