The little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast At Tiffany's went under the hammer for a record price at Christie's auctioneers in London last week, some six times the reserve price.
There were gasps around the room as the bidding mounted for the Givenchy fur-lined dress before a round of applause as it was eventually sold to a telephone buyer for £410,000 (NT$26,034,520). With commissions, the official price was £467,200 pounds, a world record for a dress made for a film.
The dress, one of three made for the film seen in the opening scenes, had a reserve price between £50,000-70,000 (NT$3,174,900-4,444,860 ).
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Screen icon Hepburn wore the sleek, sleeveless dress in her role as Holly Golightly in the popular 1961 movie. The garment was sold on behalf of French writer Dominic Lapierre's charity City of Joy, based in Kolkata, which has worked for 25 years to help under-privileged Indians through a network of clinics, schools, rehabilitation centers and hospital boats.
Lapierre voiced astonishment at the price it fetched. "There are tears in my eyes," he said. "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."
The money will help open a school with the latest computer equipment in the River Ganges delta region of eastern India. Before the sale, Lapierre said that £50,000 would open the school and keep it running for a year.
(AFP)
奧黛麗．赫本在電影「第凡內早餐」中所穿的一襲黑色小洋裝，上週在倫敦佳士得拍賣會上以約六倍於底標的破天荒價格拍案成交。
當這件紀梵希鑲皮邊洋裝最後以四十一萬英鎊（新台幣兩千六百零三萬四千五百二十元）出售給一名電話競標者時，全場先是一片驚呼，最後人人鼓掌叫好。含佣金達四十六萬七千兩百英鎊的最後成交價更打破戲服的價格紀錄。
這件洋裝是專為「第凡內早餐」打造的三件洋裝之一，底標介於五萬到七萬英鎊之間。
銀幕偶像赫本在一九六一年相當受
歡迎的「第凡內早餐」片中飾演霍莉•戈萊特麗一角時，就是穿這件曲線無袖洋裝。這件洋裝是以法國作家多明尼克．賴裴瑞的慈善機構「歡樂城」的名義出售。「歡樂城」總部位在加爾各答，慈善機構二十五年來不斷透過醫院、學校、復建中心和海上醫院連結的網絡幫助印度的弱勢兒童。
賴裴瑞表示對得標價格感到驚訝，「我眼睛裡面泛著淚光。」他說︰「我完全不敢相信一件迷人女演員的衣服能助我支付磚瓦水泥的費用，讓世界上最貧窮的兒童都能上學。」
這筆錢會用來協助在印度東部恆河三角洲一帶蓋設具有最新電腦配備的學校。拍賣開始前賴裴瑞就表示，五萬英鎊就可以開設學校並且維持其一年的營運。
（法新社╱翻譯︰鄭湘儀）
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