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from August 31 through September 14. It will be the signature item up for bid in Sotheby’s inaugural Fashion Icons auction.
The sweater was one of the first pieces designed and created by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne for the knitwear label. A few weeks after Diana wore it to one of Prince Charles’ polo matches in June 1981, Muir and Osborne received a letter from Buckingham Palace that informed them that Diana adored the sweater, but it had been damaged. So the Warm & Wonderful team knitted her a new one and later received a grateful thank you note from Diana’s secretary, Oliver Everett CVO.
Since Diana was photographed wearing the sweater, it has become an “emblem of royal history,” Sotheby’s says. Warm & Wonderful has even updated its tagline to “Home of the Original Sheep Sweater.” From T-shirts to sweatshirts, look-alikes abound, especially after a similar style was featured on the fourth season of the Netflix series. Warm & Wonderful stopped producing the sheep sweater in 1994, then reissued it in 2020. Today, you can pre-order a “Diana Edition” cotton recreation for $248 onBut bid wisely and you can own THE sweater, which is valued at an estimated $50,000 to $70,000.from August 31 through September 14.
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