Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with a doodle of the legend, who died of a rare type of cancer on Jan. 20, 1993 at age 63.
"Soon after losing her we felt that, would she have had more time on this earth, she would have spent it continuing to speak on the behalf of the millions of children who don’t have a ‘fair start’ in life. This was the generation she worked for tirelessly for the last five years of her life as an ambassador for UNICEF," <a data-cke-saved-href=">Hepburn-Ferrer said in a blog post.
He said Hepburn "believed in education as way to change the course of history of those countries that are still developing."
Because of this, the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund and the Audrey Hepburn Society at the US Fund for UNICEF had been created to help the survival and development of children in need all over the world, he said.
Also he said Hepburn remains "a symbol of both inner and outer elegance for many, her last chapter as a humanitarian forever intertwined with her Hollywood and style legacies."
Meanwhile, Google doodler Jennifer Horn said it was a tricky task for her to produce the doodle of a "classically beautiful actress (who) dedicated her life to philanthropy."
"I wanted to show both sides of her life's work," she said.
She said she drew inspiration from Hepburn's her portrait in Yousuf Karsh's photograph from 1956, used with permission from the estate of Yousuf Karsh.
"The black and white image is graceful and understated yet immediately recognizable. Taking cues from Audrey's movie posters and work with charities, I added a graphic splash of pink and figures of her dancing with and embracing children," she said. — Joel Locsin /LBG, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
