photo via Adieu Tristesse
CONTEMPORARY | Audrey Tautou
photo via listal.com
"The eldest of four children, with one brother and two sisters, Audrey would be raised in Montlucon, some 50 miles north-west of Beaumont. This was prime French countryside, catering for tourists seeking to ski, hike, fish, bike and climb. No wonder, then, that young Audrey would be something of a tomboy, a prepubescent daredevil, the joy of outdoor activities taking her mind from academic pursuits that, with her natural intelligence, she found easy to digest."—biographical excerpt via TalkTalk
GEAR | Foul Weather Jacket
photo by Wallace Kirkland, 1950
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” —Louisa May Alcott
ICON | Princess Anne
photos via The Daily Mail, Angela San Cartier
By proving herself an expert horsewoman, it emerges that the princess was able to escape aspects of royalty that oppressed her, and against which she rebelled, when she was younger. She became the BBC’s sports personality of 1971 and competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games in the British three-day event team. “It was a way of proving that you had something that was not dependent on your family, a way of being judged on what you did rather than having even more assumptions made ...” She adds: “I like being professional. I’m annoyed at not doing things properly.”
There is dramatic film footage of her serious fall at Montreal, when, as Inverdale puts it, her horse Goodwill, seemed to go one way as he accelerated towards a fence, and she went the other. Though briefly concussed, she showed typical sangfroid and got back in the saddle but says she has no memory of competing the course – or even starting it. Today’s health and safety rules would never have allowed her to continue, she says wryly. “It’s a bit pathetic.” —an excerpt from The Telegraph's In Praise of the Princess Royal: Anne at 60
ICON | Tina Chow
Tina Chow by Andy Warhol, 1985
"Tina was from Cleveland, Ohio the daughter of a German father and Japanese mother and the Eurasian clash resulted in startling green eyes and an impish face that could be as boyish as it was beautiful, especially in conjunction with her signature crop. —Melanie Rickey, Grazia magazine
ICON | Eartha Kitt
photo of singer Eartha Kitt playing stick ball in Central Park by Gordon Parks, 1952
"I love games, especially baseball. Ice cream cones convinced these boys I could play with them in the park, and now we meet twice a week."—Eartha Kitt
ICON | Ella Raines
Photo of Ella Raines escaping her husband's lasso by Ralph Crane, 1945.
"While on vacation with her husband, Maj. Kenneth Trout, Ella fishes in a man's pork pie hat, beats her husband at badminton, hikes through the woods and builds campfires."—LIFE
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