Diana’s purple silk velvet gown from 1989, designed by Victor Edelstein, ultimately sold for five times the estimate.
Diana’s purple silk velvet gown from 1989, designed by Victor Edelstein, was estimated at $80,000 to $120,000. The dress, which featured a tulip-shaped skirt and three intricate gold buttons on the back bodice, ultimately sold for five times the estimate at $604,800 according toAccording to the auction note from Sotheby’s, Edelstein designed the dress as part of his autumn 1989 collection.
The dress was first auctioned off in June 1997, shortly before Diana’s death on Aug. 31, 1997. At the time, the Princess of Wales sold almost 80 dresses from her wardrobe for charity in an auction at Christie’s New York on behalf of the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund and the AIDS Crisis Trust.In 1991, Diana was photographed in the dress by Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon.
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