The little black dress. The simple turtleneck. The elegant ballet flats… Audrey Hepburn’s iconic image has long been associated with timeless grace, simplicity and style. At the start of Hepburn’s career, however, she was far from being perceived as a “classic beauty” by Hollywood’s aesthetic standards (Studlar 203) and was instead regarded a “counter-model” to the popular “voluptuous, ...

 刚刚完成了大学第一个学期的学业，我有许多美好的回忆，也学到了很多。这些回忆绝不仅限于我的宏观经济学、微积分、中级西班牙语以及人类学的研讨课堂。作为美国顶尖文理学院，我的大学提供给学生充分的学术资源及与教授密切交流的机会。综合图书馆资料全面、不同学术领域的小图书馆提供温馨的学习空间、敬业的教授主动每周二晚上九点到十点半（有时会持续到深夜）组织额外的经济学“学习小组”，听取学生讨论课上所学的知识，同...

“Mind The Gap, Please.”

It is another busy day. Commuters take the stairs up, line up, receive an expressionless nod from the immigration officers, and walk across the yellow line, indicating that they have crossed the border. Again.

“Please mind the gap.” The broadcast echoes over and over again, first in English, followed closely by Cantonese, and finally Mandarin Chines...

Transformations in Audrey Hepburn’s Iconic Image and Beyond

     The little black dress. The simple turtleneck. The elegant ballet flats… Audrey Hepburn was, and still remains, an all-time classic who transformed Hollywood’s sense of fashion and style. As a young woman who grew up suffering malnutrition from post-war Europe, Hepburn was considered “flat-chested”, “wide eyed”, “big n...