LOS ANGELES: The three-tiered tutu that Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw’ wears within the opening credit of ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ bought $52K (over Rs 43 lakh) and its authentic price was $5 (over Rs 415).
The skirt was one in every of many iconic gadgets included in Julien’s Auctions’ Unstoppable: Signature Kinds Iconic Girls In Vogue public sale.
It was additionally one of many greatest earners and featured gadgets spanning “from the Golden Age of Hollywood to right now’s trendsetting celebrities and influencers, ” studies folks.com.
The tulle skirt, a white, three-tier tutu with a satin waistband, was topped solely by a velvet cocktail costume worn by Princess Diana and the Givenchy ensemble Grace Kelly wore to satisfy President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, each of which bought for $325, 000.
The successful bid on Bradshaw’s skirt was one of many public sale’s most surprising, because it was estimated to promote for $8, 000 to $12, 000 and SATC costume designer Patricia Area sourced the piece for simply $5 earlier than the HBO sequence’ 1998 premiere.
Area initially deliberate to type Carrie in a spring 1998 Marc Jacobs runway costume, however finally determined to go together with one thing extra timeless for the opening credit, per the Julien’s Auctions web site.
After rummaging via a $5 bin in Manhattan’s Garment District, she discovered the skirt and with Parker’s stamp of approval the enduring tutu grew to become a important a part of not solely SATC historical past, but in addition vogue historical past.
And, due to the character of the opening credit sequence, through which Carrie and her iconic tutu will get splashed by a passing bus, the auctioned-off skirt is only one of 5 that have been used on SATC.
The tutu makes one other look within the 2008 SATC movie as Carrie offers buddies Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) a closet clean-out vogue present.
Because the stylish squad bands collectively to resolve which gadgets the fashionista ought to maintain or toss, the tulle quantity earns a unanimous “maintain.”
Additionally up for bidding have been an autographed SATC forged picture, which bought for $1, 170, and Carrie’s laptop computer, which raked in $12, 700.
The style-focused public sale additionally featured gadgets worn by icons like Whitney Houston, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Elle Woods’ chihuahua from Legally Blonde.