Breakfast at Tiffany's is, of course, one of the most iconic films for fashion of all time. It brought us the little black dress and the conviction that anyone can pursue their dream of being a New York socialite no matter how unlikely and have an oddly great time in the process.

The story of the film's costumes, however, is one of legendary Hollywood revenge. Just like in Hepburn's earlier film Sabrina, Givenchy had been hired to design her gowns. After all, Hepburn was a former model of his, and he loved the idea of a rising star showing off his clothes. Givenchy became, of course, the creator of the little black dress for which Breakfast at Tiffany's is so famous.

Sabrina, however, had led to cruel results for Givenchy, when Edith Head, the costume designer who hadn't designed all of the costumes (or any of the real standout show pieces used in the Paris sequences) won an Oscar for Givenchy's work and never acknowledged his part in the film's look. The studio even helped her cover it up! So when it was time for Head and Givenchy to work on the same project again, Givenchy made a point to protect his interests. Head's credit line on the film wound up being merely "wardrobe supervisor," which was a huge demotion for her.

Don't feel too bad for Head though, not only did she win more Oscars than any other woman and garner an amazing thirty-four nominations in her career, she got her first costume design job in film using sketches she'd borrowed from someone else!

Luckily we can all borrow the idea of the little black dress from this classic film, and there's truly no better time than now, with the current resurgence of interest in late-50s and early 60s vintage looks thanks to the current crop of Hollywood period pieces, which should ensure that sophisticated simplicity is a major fashion statement for some time to come.

As actress Anne Heche prepares for her arrival of her baby with boyfriend and former co-star, James Tupper, her divorce from her ex-husband Coley Laffoon has been finalized. An agreement on spousal support is what held up the divorce finalization. It has been agreed that Heche will pay Laffoon a lump sum of $515,000. She will also pay him $3,700 a month for child support for their son Homer, 6. Heche and Laffoon wed back in 2001 and filed for divorce in February 2007. She couldn't even wait until her divorce was finalized before getting pregnant with another man's baby?

It looks like Mischa Barton will be joining the dating scene again. Mischa blogged that she broke up with her musician boyfriend Luke Pritchard. She wrote on the blog, "I'm sure you guys are all going to hear about it soon enough, so I just wanted to tell you what is real first -- I broke up with Luke when I got to London." She went on, writing, "There was no cheating or anything terrible, the bad just started to outweigh the good, and a long-distance relationship is never an easy thing to do." The couple had been dating for a little over a year.

Ashlee Simpson has confirmed that she will be joining the cast of the new Melrose Place. Simpson tells US Magazine, "I look forward to being a part of its new generation of residents." It has been reported that Ashlee will play a lead character on the show named Violet, who is a small-town girl who moves to the big city of L.A. with a secret. Simpson just recently had a guest appearance on CSI: New York with her husband Pete Wentz. She also had a reoccurring role on the drama 7th Heaven for two years when she was a teenager. They must be running out of original ideas for television shows as they keep resurrecting old ones and attempting to make them new.

Source: www.usmagazine.com