Nov25

$35,000 for the Green Dress?!

Yes, thats right! The LA Times is reporting that the green dress worn by Keira in Atonement was recently sold for a whooping $35 grand! Amazing, huh? It was all for a good cause, though.

Someone recently paid $35,000 at auction for an emerald-green silk gown. It’s backless and a diminutive size 2, so we know that the stiletto-high price wasn’t pegged to the amount of fabric that went into its making.

This striking piece, worn by Keira Knightley in the film ” Atonement,” is already regarded in some quarters as on its way to becoming one of the iconic dresses in film history. Someday it could be right up there with the little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Marilyn Monroe’s fabled white number blown heavenward in “The Seven Year Itch.”

Read more, here.



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