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☆ Why auction houses are embracing luxury — and celebrity — fashion
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Joan Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

(CNN) — There’s a lot of talk about luxury’s rising prices, but it’s at auction that fashion is selling for the most eye-popping of sums. Fashion items from the sets of TV, film and even commercials can also garner high prices. Frank Augstein/APWhile selling prices are widely publicized, auction houses maintain something akin to attorney-client privilege when it comes to the identities of their bidders. In fact, much of the archival fashion seen on stars today has passed through auction. “That dress would now sell for $10 million because of that double whammy connection of a celebrity,” said Nolan.

Persons: —, Celine, Joan Didion, Levi’s, Kurt Cobain, Elton, Burberry, ”, Nicole Kidman, Lucy Bishop, Frank Augstein, Bishop, Audrey Hepburn, Diana —, Victoria, they’re, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s, Laverne Cox, Jordan Strauss, ’, Shannon Hoey, Hoey, Dior, Elizabeth Debicki, Diana, “, Meg Randell, Leigh Anne Clark —, Valentino, Saint Laurent, Chanel, Andre Leon Talley’s Birkin, Christie’s, Anna Wintour, Clark, Talley, would’ve, Andre Leon Talley's, Meghan McCarthy, Renae Plant, Diana’s, It’s, Carrie Bradshaw, Martin Nolan, Carrie Bradshaw's, Craig Blankenhorn, Barbie, Marilyn Monroe, John F, Kennedy, Nolan, Read Organizations: The, Fashion, CNN, AMC, Albert Museum, York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, USA, Plant, City, Julien’s, HBO Locations: London, Dallas, Palm Beach , Florida, California, Paris, Australia

☆ London Fashion Week: Highlights from the Fall-Winter 2024 runways
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Fiona Sinclair Scott | Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Ben BroomfieldFaux furFleecy, fuzzy or fine: Faux fur was a key textile on the London runways. Ben Broomfield/Ben Broomfield @photobenphotoRobyn Lynch gave the white anorak a romantic silhouette during her Fall-Winter 2024 show. Maja SmiejkowskaStaged in a Gothic Revival church in East London, Dilara Findikoglu's show was a twisted fantasy. Dilara FindikogluSinead O'Dwyer, whose collection was inspired by a not-so-appropriate take on office wear, led the charge on diverse casting this season. Chris YatesModel on the runway at Molly Goddard RTW Fall 2024 as part of London Ready to Wear Fashion Week held at the Cecil Sharp House on February 17, 2024 in London, England.

Persons: scrappy, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Jonathon Ferris, John Malkovich, Maximilian Raynor’s, Harris Reed, Victoriana, — Conner Ives, Sinead Gorey —, Ives, Gorey, Maria Callas —, JW Anderson, Jonathan Anderson, ”, Amy Winehouse’s, Lily Cole, Agyness Deyn, Edward Crutchley, Stephen Jones ’ millinery, Molly Goddard’s, ” Goddard, ” Molly Goddard, Ben Broomfield, Broomfield, Simone Rocha, Jean Paul Gaultier, Queen Victoria, Conner Ives, Precious Lee, Sinead Gorey, Johanna Parv, Parv, Daniel Lee, moleskin, Henry Nicholls, Robyn Lynch, Lynch upcycled outerwear, Ben Broomfield @photobenphoto Robyn Lynch, Chris Yates, Naomi Campell, Joe Maher, Daniel Lee's, Filippo Fior, Burberry Erdem, Giovanni Giannoni, Jason Lloyd Evans, Jason Lloyd Evans Harris, Marc Hibbert Jonathan Anderson's, JW Anderson “, ” Anderson, ” JW Anderson, Ben Broomfield Sinead Gorey, Eamonn M . McCormack, Aldama Precious Lee, Maja Smiejkowska, Dilara, Dilara Findikoglu Sinead O'Dwyer, Chris Yates Lottie Moss, Kate Moss's, Sinead O'Dwyer, Molly Goddard RTW, Cecil Sharp, Aitor Rosas Sune, WWD, Rosas Sune, Molly Goddard's frilly, Ahluwalia Organizations: London CNN, Central Saint Martins, Tate, JW, Fashion, Burberry, British Vogue, Jean Paul Gaultier couture, Getty, ., Company, British Museum, Getty Images Locations: London, Tate Britain, East London’s, Paris, AFP, Irish, East London, England, Nigeria

☆ Activists bombard British Museum’s social media with calls for return of Easter Island statue
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists. “Comments were only deactivated on one social media post,” a museum spokesperson told CNN in a statement Monday. The social media campaign is the latest stage in efforts to get it back to Easter Island. A museum spokesperson told CNN that other initiatives involving representatives from Easter Island had taken place at the British Museum in 2022 and 2023. The British Museum, like other cultural institutions across the Western world, is facing calls to return many artifacts to their place of origin.

Persons: Mike Milfort, “, ”, Neil Hall, el, Gabriel Boric, Adrian Dennis, ” Boric, Queen Victoria, Rapu, London’s Victoria Organizations: London CNN, British, Islanders, British Museum, CNN, Radio Chiloé, Getty, London’s, Albert Museum, Asante Locations: Easter, Chilean, Rapa, Pascua, Eastern, AFP, Chile, London, Rapa Nui, Ghana, Manhyia, Kumasi

☆ Why these Korean moon jars sell for millions at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

‘Owning a piece of happiness’The first moon jars were created in the royal kilns in Gwangju (a city just outside Seoul, not the larger southern city of the same name) from 1650 to 1750. A modern-day moon jar made by South Korean potter Kwon Dae Sup, who said: "To appreciate a moon jar properly, you should look beyond its simple shape. He works out of a studio in Gwangju, where the royal kilns that produced moon jars were once located. Moon Duk Gwan/Axel Vervoordt GalleryKwon Dae Sup lifts a large moon jar into a kiln. Moon Duk Gwan/Courtesy Axel Vervoordt GalleryThere’s a great deal of preparation that goes into making a moon jar traditionally.

Persons: Alain de Botton, London’s Victoria, Beth McKillop, ”, Angela McAteer, “ You’ve, it’s, Yanagi Soetsu, Bernard Leach, Leach, Lucie Rie, Charlotte Horlyck, Sotheby’s, Kwon Dae, Axel Vervoordt, Choi Sunu, South Korea’s, Yu Woo, you’ve, Mark, Rothko, “, Ceramist Kim Syyong, Yun, Choi Bo Ram’s, Kwon, Duk Gwan, Duk, There’s, ” Kwon, Axel Vervoodt Organizations: CNN, Albert Museum, British Museum, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, University of London’s School of Oriental, African Studies, Art Bulletin, National Museum of, BTS Locations: New York, Americas, Europe, Gwangju, Seoul, British, South Korean, National Museum of Korea, ”, South, Korean

☆ Princess Diana’s famous ‘black sheep’ sweater is going up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Princess Diana left behind a vast style legacy, and soon enthusiasts will be able to bid for one of her most famous looks. The celebrated “black sheep” sweater first worn by Lady Diana Spencer at a polo match in 1981 when she was engaged to the now King Charles III will headline Sotheby’s Fashion Icons auction in New York and online between August 31 and September 14. The sweater will be on display at Sotheby's in New York at the start of Fashion Week on September 7. Artists Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne and their knitwear label Warm & Wonderful created the knitted, bold-red, wool crew neck, which is adorned with rows of white sheep and one black sheep on the front, in 1979. In the photograph, the lone black sheep appears to be on a higher row of white sheep on the new sweater than on the original.

Persons: Diana, Lady Diana Spencer, King Charles III, Princess Diana’s, ”, Cynthia Houlton, “, Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne, Diana’s, Muir, Osborne, Buckingham, Diana's, Sotheby's Diana, Emma Corrin Organizations: CNN, New York, Sunday, Albert Museum, CNN’s Royal Locations: New York, Buckingham Palace

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