Black Swan star Natalie Portman’s vintage Christian Dior Oscars gown has sold for $61,000.
The Academy Award-winning actress borrowed the 1954 strapless, polka-dot dress from couture dealer Rare Vintage to wear as she presented the Best Actor accolade to The Artist star Jean Dujardin last month, and the company has now sold it to an unknown British buyer.
Speaking to the website 1stdibs.com, which arranged the sale, Rare Vintage owner Juliana Carione said, “Natalie wore a dress that she fell in love with. It was the perfect dress on the perfect girl. I think it was also a great tribute to the modernity and timelessness of vintage fashion.”
According to the New York Post, the British buyer is a London-based couture collector.
Although Natalie only chose the dress at the last minute, her stylist Kate Young previously revealed the US size 4 garment needed no alterations.
“Natalie’s dress is amazing. It’s an actual 1954 spring couture dress from Rare Vintage on 57th St in New York. We borrowed it – it’s $61,000!” Kate says.
“She was actually going to wear another dress but then I got a call from the woman at Rare Vintage and she was like, ‘You should see this dress for Natalie.’ So we went and she put it on, and it needed zero alterations, and Natalie was like, ‘This was meant to be, wasn’t it?’ And I said, ‘I guess it was.'”
Take a look at Natalie’s dress here, along with other 2012 Oscars frocks
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