Audrey Hepburn’s gorgeous Givenchy dress worn in the opening of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ fetched over $800,000 at auction this afternoon at Christie’s in South Kensington, London.

It had been estimated that the dress would go for around $100,000-200,000 but a bidding war that lasted ten minutes between a man on the telephone and a man in the audience quickly raised the selling price.

The audience gasped and cheered. The dress was given to the La Pierre family by Humbert Givenchy. The La Pierre’s run the charity, City of Joy Aid (Fighting Poverty in India).

After the sale of the dress, Monsieur Dominic Lapierre said,
“There are tears in my eyes. I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children in the world into schools.”

Wasn’t Audrey gorgeous? Hollywood glamour is dead!

(PitsburghLive.com)