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The Story Behind The £33K Silk-Taffeta Gown That Vivienne Westwood Wore To A V&A Gala In Her Honour

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Vivienne Westwood’s taupe silk-taffeta gown from autumn/winter 1998 sold for nearly £33,000 at the Christie’s ‘Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection’ auction. See the story behind the Vivienne Westwood taffeta gown, the auction’s star lot.

Vivienne Westwood aficionados were spoilt for choice at Christie’s this week, where more than 200 of the late designer’s personal items were sold off in aid of The Vivienne Foundation and Médecins Sans Frontières. But there was one stand-out piece that collectors had their eye on: a taupe silk-taffeta gown from her brand’s autumn/winter 1998 collection, entitled Dressed to Scale.

Case in point: the gown’s voluminous bubble peplum skirt – which as Alexander Fury notes in his 2021 book, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections, harks back to the robe à la polonaise – a style that was popular in European royal circles in the 1770s.

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