Iconic dresses worn by Audrey Hepburn sold at auction
Audrey Hepburn’s cocktail dress sells for £60,000
The dress fetched three times the auctioneers’ estimate
A cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1966 film How to Steal a Million has been sold at auction for £60,000.
The Chantilly lace outfit, by Hepburn’s favourite designer Hubert de Givenchy, was among dozens of her dresses, hats, belts and letters being sold.
A satin bridal gown for a wedding called off by Hepburn in 1952, when the late star was 23, sold for £13,800.
Some £268,320 was raised in the auction at La Galleria in central London, with half the proceeds going to charity.
The Givenchy dress was worn by Hepburn in a scene set in the bar of London’s Ritz Hotel in How to Steal a Million.
The Oscar-winning actress, who died in 1993, starred opposite Peter O’Toole in the crime romance.
Her dress attracted a winning bid of £50,000, rising to £60,000 once fees and taxes had been factored in.
In 2007, a cocktail dress worn by Hepburn in the classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s sold in the US for almost £100,000.
From: BBC News, Articles by Anna Holligan, December 9, 2009
Filed under: Press MentionsPosted on: Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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