An public sale of most than 800 of Amy Winehouse’s attire, sneakers, jewellery and equipment that she wore on stage, in picture shoots and at numerous public occasions introduced in $4 million over the weekend, Julien’s Auctions mentioned Sunday.
The largest vendor of the occasion was the costume Winehouse wore in her remaining stage efficiency in Belgrade in her 2011 Summer time Competition Tour, which offered for a $243,200, which Julien’s mentioned was 16 occasions its unique estimate of $15,000. The costume is described as a “custom-made figure-hugging halter mini costume designed by Winehouse’s designer and stylist, Naomi Parry, [which] has a bamboo and floral print on silk integrated right into a Spanx costume.”
The costume worn by Amy Winehouse in her remaining efficiency
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One other scorching merchandise was a Moschino custom-made crimson leather-based heart-shaped purse utilized by Winehouse on the 2007 Brit Awards, which offered for $204,800, 13 occasions its unique estimate of $15,000.
Different objects included a floral gold lamé D&G stage-worn costume ($150,000), a Temperly London tan and black jumpsuit worn at a Sunday Instances 2008 portrait shoot and the 46664 Live performance efficiency honoring Nelson Mandela’s ninetieth birthday in Hyde Park, London ($121,600), a skirt she wore (offered for $11,250) and her Christian Louboutin tan peep toe heels worn on the identical efficiency and to her father’s sixtieth birthday celebration at Trent Park Golf Course in November 2009 and to London’s The Horse and Hound Pub in August 2010 ($38,400).
Winehouse died on July 23, 2011, at age 27 of unintentional alcohol poisoning.
Proceeds from the occasion, which occurred in Beverly Hills with followers and collectors bidding reside in individual, on the cellphone and on-line, will profit the Amy Winehouse Basis, which was established by the singer’s mother and father, Mitch and Janis Winehouse, to boost consciousness and assist for younger adults with habit issues.
Some objects offered this weekend will head to the “Amy: Past the Stage” exhibition on the Design Museum in London starting Nov. 26 earlier than going to the profitable bidders after the exhibition.
