First, it was Princess Diana’s black sheep sweater. Subsequent, it was Jane Birkin’s personal Birkin. Now, Sotheby’s is auctioning off one other piece of style historical past: the purple costume coat Jackie Kennedy wore on JFK’s election evening. {A photograph} from the historic second appeared on the November 21, 1960 cowl of Life Journal. The headline? “The Victorious Younger Kennedys.”
“This coat was cherished by our mom, however with our mom’s passing, we really feel it’s the precise time to entrust the coat to somebody who will recognize and protect it as our mom had, serving to safeguard Jackie’s legacy,” the coat’s nameless donor tells Self-importance Honest.
“Provenance is every little thing with style,” Frank Everett, a Sotheby’s vice chairman tells me. We’re standing on the fifth ground of The Breuer constructing, the landmark Brutalist construction on Madison Avenue that after housed The Whitney Museum of Artwork. Only a month in the past, the 281-year-old public sale home moved their headquarters there after buying the constructing for $100 million. Earlier than us? the coat, enclosed in a plexiglass show case.
It’s violet and double breasted and falls to the model’s knees. It seems to be outsized and roomy as a result of, properly, it’s: Kennedy was eight months pregnant along with her son, John F. Kennedy Jr. when she wore the garment on her husband’s election evening.
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Jackie Kennedy’s coat at Sotheby’s. The 1960 piece of clothes will go up for public sale subsequent week.Courtesy of Sotheby’s
