UNLABELLED, CIRCA 1960

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A HAIR ORNAMENT OF TWO BLACK VELVET ROSES
UNLABELLED, CIRCA 1960
The black posy embellished with cut gilt feathers mounted en tremblant

Exhibited

Audrey Hepburn: Una Donna, Lo Stile, Florence, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo; Tokyo, Nihombashi-Mitsukoshi Museum and elsewhere 1999 – 2001, no. 148.

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Lot Essay

This piece recalls the mink pompom on the Givenchy hat in Breakfast at Tiffany's, later immortalised in Givenchy's memoir To Audrey with Love.

Audrey is pictured wearing this lot at the 4th Annual Kennedy Centre Honors Dinner in Washington DC with Robert Wolders.

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