{"id":77361,"date":"2023-09-15T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T09:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=77361"},"modified":"2023-09-15T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T09:02:17","slug":"princess-diana-s-black-sheep-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/princess-diana-s-black-sheep-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana’s ‘black sheep’ sweater sold for more than $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The auction started on August 31, and the highest price offered remained below 200 thousand dollars until the last minutes of the auction.<\/p>\n

Sotheby’s said the estimated value of the sweater was 50 to 80 thousand dollars. The auction house did not identify the buyer of the sweater.<\/p>\n

A knitted sweater found in the attic of a house last March became the highest-earning Princess Diana item sold in recent years.<\/p>\n

Diana’s Ford Escort brand car was also sold for 806 thousand dollars last year.<\/p>\n

It was often said that the design of the sweater showed Princess Diana’s position in the Royal Family.<\/p>\n

But fashion historians believe Diana wasn’t sending a message with the sweater she wore in 1981, a month before her marriage to King Charles.<\/p>\n

When Diana wore the sweater, the company that produced it, Warm and Wonderful, became famous.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace wrote a letter to the company immediately after the marriage, stating that the sweater was damaged and asking for a new one. Princess Diana later wore the new sweater at a polo match in 1983.<\/p>\n

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Princess Diana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lady Di’s sheep sweater broke all records: it was auctioned for $1,100,000 in London<\/h3>\n

Princess Diana’s garment had become iconic because of the black sheep she wore on her forehead.
\nIt was found by chance earlier this year in an attic.<\/p>\n

The red wool sweater with a black sheep that Princess Diana wore in 1981 was auctioned this Thursday for $1,100,000, thus setting a new sales record for any garment worn by Lady Di.<\/p>\n

The jersey also became the most valuable awarded at auction, Sotheby’s, which was in charge of the auction, confirmed to the EFE agency.<\/p>\n

The sweater was worn by Princess Diana to Prince Charles’s polo match in June 1981, a month before her wedding.<\/p>\n

Known as “Black Sheep” because of the black sheep that stood out on the front among a multitude of white sheep shapes, it was one of the most emblematic garments worn by Princess Diana, who died in a car accident on August 31, 1997 in Paris.<\/p>\n

The garment from the British brand Warm & Wonderful reached a total of 44 bids, which ended up multiplying its final price by 14, estimated at US$80,000. The auction was active from August 31 to September 14.<\/p>\n

The auction house extended the sale for a few minutes due to the avalanche of bids that reached the edge of closing and that made the price go from $190,000 in 15 minutes to the $1,100,000 at which it was awarded.<\/p>\n

The Sheep Sweater opened Sotheby’s Fashion Icons auction in New York, which featured “a highly curated selection” of pieces from the “most influential” people, designers and cultural moments in history.<\/p>\n

The story of Lady Di’s sheep sweater<\/h3>\n

Weeks after Diana was photographed wearing the sweater, the designers received a letter from Buckingham Palace explaining that the garment had suffered some damage to one sleeve and asking if it could be repaired or even replaced.<\/p>\n

The designers sent her a new garment, which earned them a letter of thanks from the princess’s private secretary, Oliver Everett.<\/p>\n

Both letters were part of the sale of the sweater.<\/p>\n

The designers of the original model assumed that the original had been repaired and sent to a customer. But in March 2023, when Joanna was looking in the attic for an old pattern, she found the red sheep sweater in a small box.<\/p>\n

According to photographs from the auction house, the garment sold has several holes in one sleeve.<\/p>\n

A Lady Di dress was auctioned for almost $400,000<\/h3>\n

This same Thursday, the sale of a black and white Princess of Wales dress designed by Murray Arbeid, which was worn by her on two occasions in 1985, was also completed for $380,000.<\/p>\n

First to celebrate Prince Edward’s 21st birthday at the Midsummer Night’s Ball in June and then for the Worshipfull Company of Fanmakers banquet in December.<\/p>\n

In January Sotheby’s had auctioned the purple velvet “Infanta style” ball gown designed by Victor Edelstein for $604,800.<\/p>\n

The auction also included the dress worn by Kate Winslet during the 1998 Oscars, when she was nominated for best actress for her role in Titanic, and a dress worn by former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama during a charity celebration, among other clothes.<\/p>\n

The first was awarded for US$12,700 and the second for US$9,525.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Princess Diana’s red sweater, with a black sheep in the middle of rows of white sheep, was sold for 1.14 million dollars at the New York branch of Sotheby’s Auction House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[23918],"class_list":["post-77361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-princess-diana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77365,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77361\/revisions\/77365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}