Grace Kelly’s Granddaughter Camille Gottlieb Recreates Iconic Look

Few Hollywood stars encapsulate the mesmerizing glamour of Golden Age of Hollywood fairly like Grace Kelly. Her look was extremely female and splendid, crammed with flowing nipped-waist robes, luxurious materials, and class. Certainly one of her most iconic seems to be seems in within the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window. A magical creation by revered costume designer Edith Head, the black and white tulle costume floats round Kelly as she swans throughout the display.

71 years later, Kelly’s granddaughter, Camille Gottlieb has now recreated the look that went down in cinematic historical past. Gottlieb, who wore the up to date model of the robe to the 76th Pink Cross Ball on July 12 in Monaco, shared a photograph of the attractive robe on Instagram. “Due to Elisabetta Franchi,” she wrote in French within the caption, tagging the Italian designer who helped her recreate the robe.

In one other Instagram put up, which featured a video of Gottlieb preparing for the occasion, she defined that Franchi took inspiration from the unique Edith Head robe including a number of trendy touches. “After I was little, I used to be usually instructed I appeared like my grandmother,” she stated in French. “For me, this is without doubt one of the largest compliments… it is an honor to pay homage to her this night.”

A detailed-up of the design plans reveal that the bodice is product of shiny stretch satin with pleats and deep underwiring. As for the glamorous lengthy skirt, like the unique, it options yards of ivory tulle. Franchi took inspiration from the fragile vine motif embroidery on the unique costume and amplified the element, including glowing silver vines round Gottlieb’s waistline.

Gottlieb accomplished the referential look with a glowing diamond choker with a small leaf-shaped pendant by Cartier, a jeweler usually worn by Kelly.

In Rear Window, Kelly performs Lisa Fremont, an impossibly glamorous society girl who falls for an adventure-seeking photographer, Jeff, performed by Jimmy Stewart. After Jeff breaks his leg on project, he finds himself bedridden in his cramped New York condominium constructing, with nothing to entertain him however his neighbors out the window. We first see Lisa when she surprises him at his condominium after an evening out in town—and within the elegant black and white robe, paired with white opera gloves and a lightweight tulle scarf, she is an utter imaginative and prescient.

Kelly left Hollywood behind simply two years later when, in 1956, she married Prince Rainier of Monaco—wearing a Dior gown, naturally. The couple had Princess Caroline, Prince Albert, and Princess Stéphanie. Tragically, Kelly was killed in a automobile crash in 1982.

Stéphanie went on to present beginning to Camille in 1998 after a relationship together with her bodyguard, Jean Raymond Gottlieb, Camille’s father. Camillie has two half-siblings, Louis and Pauline Ducruet, kids from Stéphanie’s first marriage with Daniel Ducruet.