Audrey's dress sold for over $800,000
by Sarah J. Gim (Subscribe to Sarah J. Gim's posts), Posted Dec 5th 2006 at 2:12PMThis is a post
Call us obsessed, we don't mind, for it is the dress that launched a global wardrobe of LBDs. We mentioned earlier this summer that the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's would be up for auction, then were hyped about it as the auction day drew near. Today, we have found that the dress sold at Christie's for almost six times the pre-sale estimates, bringing in $807,000 from a call-in bidder. The proceeds will go to a charity called City of Joy Aid, which helps the needy in India.While the sale price sets the record for a dress associated with a movie, but still did not beat a dress worn by a celeb, which is the white dress that Marilyn Monroe wore singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK. That baby brought in $1.27 million.
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Tags: audrey hepburn, breakfast at tiffany's, BreakfastAtTiffany's, christie's, dress, dresses
Tags: audrey hepburn, breakfast at tiffany's, BreakfastAtTiffany's, christie's, dress, dresses














roberta 12-05-2006 @ 6:45PM
ONLY 900,000?? If I were extrememly wealthy, I would pay a lot more for this dress, especially considering all proceeds go to charity. This is THE hollywood memorabilia dress, in my opinion.
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Hharley Jackson Rushing Jr 12-05-2006 @ 6:48PM
To the people paying such prices for dress attire,money to them is like the oceans to me, endless. ~~~~~~ HJR
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katie 12-05-2006 @ 9:31PM
I wish I had kept mine... excepot mine was navy blue ... not black :(
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