BURBERRY, EARLY 1980s

Details

A THREE-QUARTER LENGTH TRENCH COAT
BURBERRY, EARLY 1980s
Lined in iconic Burberry cotton plaid, with leather buckles, double breasted

Exhibited

Audrey Hepburn: Una Donna, Lo Stile, Florence, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo; Tokyo, Nihombashi-Mitsukoshi Museum and elsewhere 1999 – 2001, no. 27.

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Lot Essay

Audrey Hepburn was photographed wearing what is likely this coat whilst walking on the banks of the Seine, Paris with Hubert de Givenchy in the 1980s (illustrated opposite & see lot 240) she is also illustrated wearing what appears to be this coat in Kyoto, Japan, 1983 (illustrated, L. Dotti, Audrey at Home, New York, 2015, p. 172).

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