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Princess Diana‘s wardrobe stays in excessive demand — her well-known sheep sweater simply bought to the best bidder for over $1.1 million, making it the world’s costliest sweater.
An all-out bidding conflict erupted for the famed pink and white sweater at Sotheby’s Trend Icon public sale — a 15-minute battle ended Thursday with 44 bids, jacking the worth up from $190,000 to $1,143,000.
Princess Diana famously wore the sweater for the primary time manner again in 1981 … serving to the designers behind the garment, British model Heat & Fantastic, explode in reputation after she was pictured carrying it on the entrance web page of a newspaper.
The sheep sweater sat dormant within the model’s archives for many years till this March, when co-founder Joanna Osborne rediscovered it whereas trying to find a special sample … and finally determined to public sale it off.
The successful bidder walks away with Diana’s sheep sweater and two letters from Buckingham Palace despatched to Osborne in 1981 from the Princess’ press secretary.
The $1.143 million sale value practically doubles the earlier file for the costliest Princess Diana garment ever bought … a velvet ballgown she wore for a royal portrait, which bought earlier this yr for $604,800.
