Unseen in a bag for more than 50 years, the “lucky” dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor when she won her Oscar in 1961 will be auctioned off next month. It is expected to sell for up to $73,000. The dress is thought to have been in Christian Dior’s storage in Paris, but in fact it was stored in a large plastic bag, along with 11 other dresses of the star, and forgotten in the guest room of the former Taylor. assistant since 1971.
Taylor wore a Christian Dior dress, which was embellished with floral embroidery and crimson silk flowers at the waist to the 33rd Academy Awards, which she attended with her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher. Due to the scandal surrounding her relationship with Fisher, in which she was accused of stealing from actress Debbie Reynolds, Taylor was convinced that she would not win the Best Actress award of the year for her performance. and Butterfield 8.
“She used to be the maid of honor, and she was not the bride at the Oscars and this time, she did not expect to win, since she was ignored before and had all the bad news with Eddie Fisher,” said Kerry Taylor says his vintner. a fashion specialty store sells the dress.
After her Oscar win, the star came to regard the dress as a “kind of charm” and took it with her around the world. “Elizabeth Taylor still takes the dress from place to place after 10 years. She doesn’t wear it at other times, she likes it with her,” said Kerry Taylor. The actress gave a lot of clothes to former employee Anne Sanz, whose husband Gaston worked as a driver and bodyguard. This couple traveled the world with Taylor and her husband Richard Burton at the height of fame in the 1960s and 1970s.
By 1971, Taylor’s wardrobe sometimes included as many as 40 bags. And so, despite the emotional value of the Dior dress, he eventually gives it up. The actress reportedly opened her wardrobe at London’s Dorchester Hotel one day in 1971, telling Sanz to take what she wanted. Other items up for sale include a Tiziani haute couture dress by Karl Lagerfeld and a “widow” dress worn by Taylor in the 1967 film Boom, also by Lagerfeld.
Over the years, Sanz has worn a few clothes and given them away as gifts to friends and family, never looking at them as valuable. “By the way, these are only the second pair of gloves that belong to Liz Taylor. So what? That was before popular opinion became that thing,” says Kerry Taylor.
The sale will be held in London on December 6.
