Luca Dotti, the son of Audrey Hepburn, did not realize his mother was an icon until someone told him so. "I remember he wrote to me and said, ‘Remember, your mother is an icon,’" Dotti told Fox News. "In those days, my mother gave us a very normal upbringing. That’s what she wanted for us," the 54-year-old shared. "She stopped making movies when my brother Sean was about five years old. She wanted to be present as he went to school. By the time I was born … she was already a full-time mom. And remember, there was no Instagram, Facebook or anything like that to show me that she was an icon. She was just my mother. I didn’t have that concept that she was an icon until her death." Dotti and Meghan Friedlander teamed up to write "Audrey Hepburn in Paris," which explores how the iconic star shined brightly in Paris with her timeless style. It features many never-before-seen photo of Hepburn, who passed away in 1993 from cancer. "A lot of people think my mother was French," said Dotti. "Some people never think of her as half British and Dutch because they connected her to the places that she acted in. But, in reality, I want people to think about Audrey as a happy farmer." After filming "Wait Until Dark," Hepburn moved to Switzerland where she raised her children in a lakeside village home. The home was an 18th-century farmhouse where Hepburn was often spotted in jeans and a polo. "Switzerland was where she could escape from the glamour of Hollywood," said Dotti. "She was just a regular mom who took me to school and looked after me. I was very protected from that world of paparazzi and cameras. It was, to a certain extent, a world that was unfamiliar to me."

However, it was Paris that Hepburn called her "playground." "Audrey looked like the mannequins of Paris," Friedlander explained to Fox News. "She even went on to influence those mannequins. When she came onto the scene, you could see that more and more of the French couture models were looking like Audrey. There was even one in particular who was essentially her doppelgänger. It was clear that Paris saw her as one of their own. … And from the get-go, her style was purely Parisian. It was a natural instinct." She continued, "Audrey embodied a very different kind of look. She had a slender, delicate figure. And that’s what people were craving at the time. They wanted something fresh, new and exciting. They wanted something that had never been presented to them before. And here was Audrey, whose figure was young, boyish and carefree. She really did change the course of fashion."

Today, Hepburn's style continues to resonate with fans decades after her death. "Audrey’s superpower was her authenticity," she explained. "People were glued to that. She was the real deal. She was someone who chose to age gracefully. That’s something you don’t see a lot of today. But, ultimately, Audrey was just someone who was always herself. And even after she won her first Oscar, she never changed. She was a very resilient person, and she was also a very genuine person. She was someone who connected with other people."

Dotti hopes that the book will introduce readers to a different side of his mother. "My mother didn’t act glamorous," he reflected. "So, I knew very little about the iconic part of my mother. She was just a regular mom to me. … Perhaps this book is a way for me to ask for a little bit of forgiveness in not knowing that part of her life. … I was very happy with the mother I knew. She wasn’t just the little black dress. But I wanted to reconnect with that other side of her, the one that also gave her joy."