Christie’s roundel
Lot 5

A PAIR OF PALE PINK LEATHER BALLET PUMPS

CIRCA 1960-1970

Closed30 August 2024

Estimate

GBP 1,500–2,500

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A PAIR OF PALE PINK LEATHER BALLET PUMPS
CIRCA 1960-1970
Trimmed with pink Petersham ribbon

Specialist note

By family tradition, these shoes were acquired from Capezio. Audrey’s son Sean remembers ‘bundles of these shoes arriving, folded flat, fastened by a rubber band’ and he suggests Hepburn may well have bought them en masse from Capezio, when her favourite model was discontinued.