We hold live auctions. Our fine specialist sales include rare antique garments right through to Street Style by designers such as Emillio Pucci, Ossie Clark, Andre Courreges, Pierre Cardin and Vivienne Westwood to sublime Couture confections by Dior, Chanel and Vionnet. Fine Vintage Auctions, Fine Vintage fashion,Vintage fashion, Vintage fashion.
We hold live auctions. Our fine specialist sales include rare antique garments right through to Street Style by designers such as Emillio Pucci, Ossie Clark, Andre Courreges, Pierre Cardin and Vivienne Westwood to sublime Couture confections by Dior, Chanel and Vionnet. Accessories sold include shoes, gloves, hats, fans, bags and costume jewellery. The textiles included are wide ranging including lace, linens, quilts, embroided pictures from the 17th to the 19th century centuries, embroided samplers, Paisley, Kashmir and Norwich shawls, Oriental and European textiles, fine vintage, antique fashion plates, literature and fabric swatch books.
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LOT NUMBER: 293
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Passion for Fashion & Fine Textiles including an Important Audrey Hepburn Collection |
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Item Description: |
| The Givenchy haute couture black chantilly lace cocktail dress, worn in `How to Steal a Million', 1966, comprising: lace cocktail gown with wrap-over back, high neck with scalloped edge, side fastenings, the full skirt edged in a flounce stiffened with horsehair, narrow black patent belt, worn over a black silk petticoat, labelled and numbered 30.361, the matching jacket with narrow Givenchy label to the neck, bust 86cm, 34in, waist 61cm, 21in; together with a photograph of Audrey wearing the gown, (5) Audrey wears this ensemble in the Ritz bar scene of the film, where her character dons a matching lace face mask over glittery eye-makeup in order to disguise herself. Her attempt not to draw attention to herself in this stunning creation spectacularly failed! Hubert de Givenchy created a similar, though not identical, cocktail gown as part of the haute couture collection, Autumn-Winter 1966, model 432. |
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| Low Estimate |
£ 15000 |
High Estimate |
£ 20000 |
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We hold live auctions. Our fine specialist sales include rare antique garments right through to Street Style by designers such as Emillio Pucci, Ossie Clark, Andre Courreges, Pierre Cardin and Vivienne Westwood to sublime Couture confections by Dior, Chanel and Vionnet. Fine Vintage Auctions, Fine Vintage,Vintage fashion, Vintage fashion.
We hold live auctions. Our fine specialist sales include rare antique garments right through to Street Style by designers such as Emillio Pucci, Ossie Clark, Andre Courreges, Pierre Cardin and Vivienne Westwood to sublime Couture confections by Dior, Chanel and Vionnet. Accessories sold include shoes, gloves, hats, fans, bags and costume jewellery. The textiles included are wide ranging including lace, linens, quilts, embroided pictures from the 17th to the 19th century centuries, embroided samplers, Paisley, Kashmir and Norwich shawls, Oriental and European textiles, fine vintage, antique fashion plates, literature and fabric swatch books.