Sotheby's Paris Sales Celebrate Paris Fashion Week

Sotheby's Paris Sales Celebrate Paris Fashion Week

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  An exhibition of little black dresses from the Didier Ludot collection .
  
  

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  It was a very crowded event at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris. Guests enjoyed drinks by Ruinart as they admired Haute couture dresses, Dior costume jewellery and Roger Vivier pumps.
  
  

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  One of the highlights of the sale, a gorgeous creation with pagodas and figures by Jean Patou , was exhibited at the Met in 2015.
  
  
  
   
  
  

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  Didier Ludot and Pierre Cardin in front of a fine blue evening ensemble of mikado silk designed by Givenchy.
  
  

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  Didier Ludot in front of Cristobal Balenciaga’s stunning wedding dress .
  
  

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  Beautiful Dior , Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne dresses
  
  

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  Highlights from the Ludot sale alongside a beautiful Pierre Soulages painting. The artist wrote: “I always liked black. It is the most intense absence of colour, the most violent, that awards presence to colours even to white; just as a tree makes the sky blue.”
  
  

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  Conceived as a little boudoir for our costume jewellery by Dior , visitors to the exhibition can try some highlights from our online only sale which is open until October 4.
  
  

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  Roger Vivier remains one of the most creative footwear brands and is complicit with women in honouring the flight of fancy that a beautiful pair of heels represents. Here is the ideal Cinderella shoe .
  
  

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  Claire de Truchis-Lauriston, our Jewels specialist wearing a beautiful catwalk prototype from the Maasai Collection, Haute couture S/S 1997.  
  
  

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  Speaking about the little black dress, Didier Ludot said: “It is the symbol of Parisian chic, the very model of refinement, the sensual armour slipped on by generations of women who have found themselves transformed by a sublime raiment that forgives their failings and glorifies their virtues, turning heads everywhere it went. (…) While it may be ‘little’ in size – the  black dress has always been worn short – it is immense in the story it tells.”
  
  

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  Inspiration for the Dior Online sale pieces takes us from Victorian England to Maasai Africa, by way of the India of the Maharajas.
  
  

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  A  necklace similar to one worn by Kate Moss on a Dior advertising campaign shoot by Nick Knight.
  
  

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  Admiring highlights from the Christian Dior - Bijoux de Mode online only sale including a stunning necklace of silver-grey metal and rhinestone.
  
  

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  An important pair of ear clips of silver-grey metal and rhinestone, designed by John Galliano for Dior.
  
  

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