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A dress worn by Princess Diana in 1985 sold at auction for a record $1.148 million, 11 times its estimate.
The blue and black dress, designed by Moroccan-British fashion designer Jacques Azagury, is now the most expensive dress worn by the princess to be sold at auction, breaking the previous record of $604,800, the Los Angelesn said Auction house Julien's Auctions in a media statement.
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The dress was designed by Moroccan-British fashion designer Jacques Azagury.
Diana wore the dress with a black velvet bodice embroidered with stars in the Italian city of Florence in April 1985 and in Vancouver, Canada in May 1986.
The dress, along with a matching illustration, was sold as part of Julien's “Hollywood Legends” auction, which ended Sunday.
Also on display at the auction was a pink chiffon blouse that Diana wore in her 1981 engagement portrait. It sold for $381,000, nearly four times its estimate.
Earlier this year, a whimsical wool sweater decorated with sheep set the record for both the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction and the highest price paid for an item of clothing worn by Diana, fetching 1,143 at an auction in New York million US dollars. Diana wore the sweater in 1981 when she was engaged to Prince Charles, heir to the British throne.