Lady Di’s wardrobe sold at auction, a posthumous business that brings in big money

Tragic icon, Lady Di continues to fascinate, 27 years after her death in a car accident in Paris. During an exceptional auction organized this Thursday in Beverly Hills by Julien’s Auctions, his fans will be able to treat themselves to a vast collection of his clothes and accessories. Among them, two dresses each estimated between 200,000 and 400,000 dollars.

The first is a midnight blue tulle ballgown, designed by Murray Arbeid, which Diana wore in 1986 to the London premiere of the musical The Phantom of the Opera…

The second is a lace dress created by Victor Edelstein that she wore twice…

“We have exceptional pieces that are truly emblematic of her style“, explains Gabriela Schwartz of Julien’s Auctions. “She really loved fashion. She had fashion intuition. She was very thoughtful about the pieces and designers she wore. She is both the people’s princess and a fashion designer’s dream.”

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Shoes, handbags, hats and various objects… The collection presented Thursday in Los Angeles includes around fifty items that belonged to Diana. Fans will be able to acquire some of his handwritten letters, and also objects that belonged to other members of the royal family. Last December, an old Lady Di dress sold for a record $1.14 million at another auction.

Already in 2014, five dresses created for Diana were sold in Los Angeles for almost half a million dollars. One of them was a Zandra Rhodes evening dress in ivory silk embellished with pearls, which sold for $100,000. All these dresses had been sold for the first time by the princess herself, two months before her accidental death, to finance her efforts against anti-personnel mines. Before being resold by their buyers…