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This is one dress I did not like.... but Diana looked great in it anyway!A red sequinned dress designed for Princess Diana by Catherine Walker has sold at auction for £ 98,222 ($111,804) at the 'Gotta Have Rock And Roll' rock and pop, culture auction. The dress worn by Princess Diana in 1995 for a charity dinner while on an Official visit to Buenos Aires, attracted five bids and sold for more than $31,000 over it's highest estimate of $80,000.
Lot Detail - Princess Diana Worn Red Lace Cocktail Dress Ex The Christies Auction, Diana Princess of Wales
80´s evening dress:
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These are certainly two dresses that have made Diana stay in our memory forever. I'm very glad they're will be destined for a laudable cause.Princess Diana Dresses On View In Times Square
Two of Princess Diana's dresses that are to be auctioned by 'Julien's' Auctions on May 7th, have been on display today in Times Square in New York. Founder Darren Julien attended the display and posed alongside the dresses.
Princess Diana Dresses On View In Times Square - Pictures - Zimbio
So why not do it for "show and tell"? People have a perfect right to get out of their actions and generosity whatever they want. The same goes for famous art, cars and jewelry. If they are not allowed to do it the way they chose to perhaps they should just keep their money as well and people having issues with it can raise and donate the equivalent amount instead.I'm glad that over a decade after the Christie's auction, the dresses are still raising money for charity, but I also feel some of the owners do it for "show and tell." They could just as easily donate the gowns to clothing museums and donate a generous sum from their own estates to the charities Diana care about. (If they are rich enough to buy couture or high fashion pieces, they are rich enough to donate to charity without throwing a auction benefit.)
I feel the exact same way you do. I bet that if Diana had not died, the dresses would not be worth as much, and people would keep them. It is a shame. Pity that the good impact of the original sale has been lost, but Diana did good, and she had no idea the way things would turn out.I feel that the impact of the original auction has been lost. That now, when people re-auction the gowns, it is to beat an old horse that died long ago, rather than because they have any original ideas about how to raise money for charity. Or donate their own money to charity without the frou-frou of an auction. (And technically, it's not their own money they are donating: it's money from the people who bought the dresses they are re-selling.)
Yes, I'm cynical but I highly doubt these sellers would be giving anything to charity if these weren't the Princess Diana dresses. If they were gowns by Babe Paley, I bet they would sell them and keep the proceeds. Hence, my complaints about the "show-and-tell."
That's undoubtedly one of Di's best dresses. These are two bigger sizes of the Elvis gown.A website reviewed the "Elvis" dress in honor of her 50th birthday.
The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor: Flashback Friday: The Elvis Gown