Never has a little black dress gained a more iconic status than the one worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Yesterday it sold at auction at Christie's for £467,200 more than six times the estimate.
The sleeveless dress, with a tiny 61-centimetre waist, slit to the thigh, is now thought to be the world's most expensive dress made for a film.
Designed by Hubert de Givenchy, the black satin gown was designed for the 1961 film in which Hepburn, as Holly Golightly, emerges from a taxi on to a deserted early-morning Fifth Avenue in New York, eating a croissant and looking into the window of Tiffany's.
Proceeds from the sale will go to City of Joy Aid, based in Calcutta, a charity set up 25 years ago. French author Dominique Lapierre, who sold the dress on behalf of the charity, said: "I am dumbfounded that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks to put the most destitute children in the world into schools."
I wonder who we can get to wear our product in a famous movie????
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CJ Henderson Azani Fashion
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