Now, we can look back on this photo shoot in a couple of ways. One, that is was a colossally bad idea. Keeley Hazell doesn’t look a whole lot like Audrey Hepburn in the face, and in the body they’re not even the same species. Hepburn’s look was fresh and iconic in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) precisely because she wasn’t a ’50s bombshell. Unlike Marilyn, Mamie, or Mansfield, she didn’t have giant boobs and ass jiggling all over the place — Audrey Hepburn was built like a 12-year-old boy. The British blokes getting all worked up over Keeley’s topless photos were probably not Audrey fans. In fact, they were probably not Breakfast at Tiffany’s fans. Swing and a miss.
But let’s focus on the positive.
So maybe the audience didn’t get the reference. So what? The fact is, they didn’t need to get the reference to enjoy the pictures. That’s how big the Keeley Hazell phenomenon was. That’s how white-hot she was at the moment. She could have posed slipping out of a burlap sack beside a waist-high stack of rotting fruit and the lads down at the pub would still say Ey mate, you see the new Keeley this week? PHWOAR she is a bit of alright! And that’s the happy ending here. Maybe the Holly Golightly shoot was Keeley’s own idea, maybe it was the photographer’s, or the hair stylist’s, who knows — it was ill-conceived. And yet — Keeley and her champion breasts win anyway. She’s just that good.
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