Photographer Richard Avedon was both a visual consultant on Funny Face and the inspiration for Astaire’s debonair character in Donen’s charming Pygmalion tale of an intellectually-minded shop girl transformed into a glamorous fashion model by Astaire and a Diana Vreeland-esque magazine editor – played by the irrepressible Kay Thompson, who gleefully steals her every scene. The purest expression of Donen’s inimitable musical style, Funny Face is simultaneously joyful and elegant, sentimental and funny, lavish and restrained. The film’s expressive color palette, stunning widescreen compositions and wonderfully evocative set design culminate in a giddy montage sequence of the transformed Hepburn modeling Givenchy’s latest styles across a dream-like Paris.