Christie’s news update on Fashion & Style
Coco Chanel famously stated that “Fashion fades; only style remains the same”. Dealing in fashion is something Christie’s has done for quite some time….
Affiliates participating in the Christie’s Great Estates Global Conference in New York last October, may recall viewing the USD 75 million Pierre Penthouse where the owner proudly displayed Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday Mr President” dress.
It was sold by Christie’s for USD 1.3 million and the flexible stitching on the dress is still visible, the dress being so tight that Marilyn Monroe had to be sewn into it.
Other iconic dresses sold by Christie’s were during the Diana sale in New York in 1997 where 79 dresses sold, raising some USD 3.2 million for charity. The black dress on the right sold for USD 200,000.
In 1961, a magic fashion moment in cinema history happened when Audrey Hepburn – in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s – stepped out of a cab on an empty Fifth Avenue in New York, with her brown paper bag containing a croissant and a coffee to look at the jewels on display in the window of Tiffany’s place.
This “breakfast dress” by Givenchy is now being offered for sale by Christie’s in December at South Kensington with an estimated price of USD 170,000.
Source: Christie’s Great Estates
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