Audrey Hepburn’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s beehive tops iconic hairstyles list

Audrey Hepburn is crowned a hairstyle icon for her Breakfast at Tiffany's beehive, with Elvis Presley's quiff and Bob Marley's dreadlocks hot on her heels

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

She might have called herself a "no-name slob", but protagonist Holly Golightly, of Breakfast at Tiffany's fame, has just been crowned a beauty icon for her much storied beehive hair 'do.

The New York society girl, who was originally imagined by author Truman Capote, has remained the poster girl for bouffant up 'do, since the 1961 screen adaptation starring the late Audrey Hepburn as Holly. 52 years on, Hepburn's hair still tops the polls for the most iconic hairstyles of all time.

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"The image of her with her dark hair piled up while she is holding a cigarette holder is one of the most recognisable film images of all time," explains Sacha Mascolo-Tarbuck, global creative director for Toni & Guy and conductor of the survey to the Mail Online. "The fact that the famous style is still topping these kinds of lists half a century since the film was released shows how iconic it really is."

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Close on Hepburn's heels in second and third ranking are Elvis Presley and Bob Marley, for their signature quiff and dreadlocks, respectively. Jennifer Aniston's 'Rachel' hair - the highlighted and layered 'do of her Friends days - sits pretty in fourth place, while Amy Winehouse proves that beehives are not just a Holly Golightly fad, at number five.

Left: Elvis Presley. Right: Bob Marley.

Surprising hair award winners include Sinead O'Connor for her, errm, no hair at 24, and Kevin Keegan's mullet at 31. Both newly crowned hair icons beat models Kate Moss and Alexa Chung, who fell into the final places of the top 50 compilation.

Left: Kevin Keegan. Right: Sinead O'Connor.