Rooney Mara vs. Audrey Hepburn

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Audrey Hepburn and Rooney Mara couldn’t be more different in their choice of character roles, yet there are a distinct characteristics that lead me to believe they are more alike than different. Audrey will forever be known as charming, yet sometimes silly Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (my favorite movie, btw!) and nobody could ever do her up for that perfectly played iconic role. Of more recent Hollywood films would go, I would say the same about Rooney Mara for her lead role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – she wasn’t much for sweet and charming yet she was completely captivating; and again, I don’t believe anyone could really outdo her riveting performance in the blockbuster movie. The most interesting of ties that I believe binds these strong actresses is their sense of personal style. I see Rooney Mara cultivating an Audrey Hepburn look these days in her red carpet appearances, despite the fact that she runs in a new age and completely different circles the look has every bit of charm it did for Audrey Hepburn in her day.

Rooney Mara wearing Louis Vuitton

Rooney has taken to the Little Black Dress staple as her go to look and even adopted the shorter than most cropped bangs. These two raven-haired beauties have created a classic look by pairing a unique hair style with a bold red lip against the contrast of flawless porcelain skin and a black dress. They truly are expressing their natural beauty by wearing such a dark color against their light skin – no better way to wear yourself than to simply compliment than to subtly emphasize what you already have! Although Rooney Mara has updated the look a bit by opting at times for more sheer, more sequined, and more sexy in her dressing, she wears Audrey well! I find their natural beauty and facial structure to be quite similar and it’s interesting to be able to see a new kind of Audrey Hepburn woman grace the big screen and the red carpet in today’s world while holding so close to her original look. One of my favorite features of the “new Audrey”, Rooney Mara, is that she has brilliantly blue/grey eyes that stand out more than any of her outfit choices.

Every time I wear a little black dress I find a small connection to Audrey Hepburn and the glory she created in wearing the perfect dress for anything! Both of these women are beautiful, talented, and above all have grace – next time you wear your favorite LBD, know that you’re apart of all their magic too!

xo, Kate

Gisele Bundchen’s “Sexy Professional” Look Recreated

15 Tuesday May 2012

Posted by Kate Heimann in Fashion, Personal life

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Alex & I at La Lumiere Fashion Show in Redding, CA for Eloquent Woman Magazine

Taking a mini-roadtrip with some of the most beautiful and hard working women I know, recreating Gisele Bundchen’s “sexy professional” look from The Devil Wears Prada, AND being named Fashion Editor of Eloquent Woman Magazine…….can you say Dream Job come true?! Ahhhhhhh I am overjoyed/ high on life/ so happy/ estatic – no, I am blessed, honored, and grateful.

Truly, this weekend has been one of the most inspiring, uplifting, and exciting to date! Hanging out with Alex, a previous roommate of mine, a great friend, and also our Magazine Designer, was such a blast! We were able to reconnect in a way that only 10 hours in a car ride can do – haha! But really, Alex and I had a lot of fun together and I felt like I was finally getting back to being a more fun self again. To be honest, these last couple of months personally haven’t been the easiest – professionally they’ve been steady and growing…and now they’ve come to a peak of greatness! I’m happy to have this weekend be a point of turnaround for the more personal parts of myself now that professionally I have accomplished a huge goal for myself.

Spending Sunday morning doing a photoshoot for our Fall 2012 issue with Jackie & Malia in a gorgeous park and then attending Bill Johnson’s service at Bethel Church has go to be some of the most happiest moments of the whole trip. Although our stay was short and our drive was long (literally 20 hours round trip!) we accomplished so much on this trip! Not only were we in a perpetual meeting of 48 hours being constantly together in the same car and such, but we were able to creatively decide almost all of the last details of the second issue we are about to publish in June. Being together for such a long time and being able to so easily flip flop between laughing about how ridiculous we all looked when falling asleep in the car and then back to picking out the right photos for the editorial piece was really a great testament to our amount of greatness in our team.

4:30am we leave Los Angeles, we arrive at our hotel in Redding by 3:30pm and have just an hour after getting settled before we have to arrive at the venue. Within one hour our team of vagabond road trippers transformed into gorgeous fashionistas ready to represent Eloquent Woman with all that they are. I realized it only after I had looked in the mirror as I was putting on my glasses before walking out of the hotel room…with the high bun, black dress, fair complexion, and of course the glasses I had created a very Gisele Bundchen look. The Devil Wears Prada is definitely one of my favorite movies – I mean you have fantastically gorgeous Anne Hathaway, playing a hard working girl just like the rest of us, have a fairy tale dream job fall upon her – what more is there to love?! Check out some of my favorite stills from the movie of Gisele’s look:

Gisele Bundchen in The Devil Wears Prada with Emily Blunt

Seeing my work in our 1st issue laid out on the table coupled with a poster sized Teaser for our Summer issue and postcards of the teaser was just so exciting!