Lot Essay
Audrey Hepburn wore this dress for a photo shoot in 1988 with Gilles Bensimon for French Elle magazine.
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UNLABELLED, GIVENCHY, 1988
Details
A BLACK LACE COCKTAIL GOWN
UNLABELLED, GIVENCHY, 1988
With flounced bell sleeves and trimmed with a single pink silk camelia to one sleeve, one lacking
UNLABELLED, GIVENCHY, 1988
With flounced bell sleeves and trimmed with a single pink silk camelia to one sleeve, one lacking
Exhibited
Audrey Hepburn: Una Donna, Lo Stile, Florence, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo; Tokyo, Nihombashi-Mitsukoshi Museum and elsewhere 1999 – 2001, no. 72.
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