Dressing Up Education ; the Auction of Audrey Hepburn's Iconic Black Dress From a 1961 Classic Helps Fund Rural Schools
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A dusty street in Lakshmikantapur-a village in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal-has turned into a star-studded area, with giant posters of two most unlikely international stars hanging. One is of Audrey Hepburn in her famous black dress in classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the other is of author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre, who has given rural Bengal many primary schools, the latest one being in this village.
Lapierre's City of Joy Foundation recently inaugurated a school in Lakshmikantapur, funded from the money that Hepburn's iconic dress fetched at Christie's auction house in London. Last spring, when French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy heard that some of Lapierre's schools in West Bengal were damaged in floods, he thought of extending a helping hand. He gave Lapierre the dress, estimating that it would fetch about $10,000. Lapierre put it up for auction and it was sold last December, after a bidding frenzy, at an unbelievable sum of $8,25,000 (Rs 3.7 crore) to an undisclosed bidder. Currently 15 schools are being built with the proceeds from the auction.See the full content of this document
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Dressing Up Education ; the Auction of Audrey Hepburn's Iconic Black Dress From a 1961 Classic Helps Fund Rural Schools
Hepburn, who dedicated her later life-she died in 1993 when she was 6...
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