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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Christie's


MARILYN MONROE 
"The Happy Birthday Mr. President" dress, worn at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962

Price realized: $1,267,500
Oct 1999, New York, Rockefeller Center
World auction record for an article of clothing
http://www.christies.com/departments/popular-culture-73-1.aspx


AUDREY HEPBURN 




An evening gown of black Italian satin designed by Hubert de Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's
Price realized: £467,200
Dec 2006, London, South Kensington
World auction record for a dress made for a movie

JOHN LENNON 
One of the most prominent, and almost certainly the most symbolic and emblematic placard, reading BED PEACE executed by John Lennon, at the historic Montreal Bed-In for Peace, 1969
Price realized: £97,250
Nov 2011, London, South Kensington


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