A BLACK SATIN COCKTAIL GOWN
Lot 215

A BLACK SATIN COCKTAIL GOWN

GIVENCHY COUTURE, 1968

Closed27 September 2017

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A BLACK SATIN COCKTAIL GOWN
GIVENCHY COUTURE, 1968
Trimmed at the neck and hem with a ruff of black feathers, with floating cut feather highlights, with canvas tag inscribed GIVENCHY 7

Specialist note

Audrey Hepburn was photographed wearing this cocktail gown in Rome on 27 December 1968, dancing with her fiancé, Dr Andrea Dotti.

This gown was exhibited in the Givenchy Retrospective held in Paris: 40 ans de Creation (in praise of her friend, Hubert de Givenchy) at the Musée de la Mode et du Costume, Paris in 1991. The catalogue includes a poem by Audrey Hepburn. Givenchy's own copy of this dress was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London in 2009, in the exhibition entitled The Little Black Dress.