The 10 most expensive movie outfits, including dresses and shoes

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There are movies we watch because of our favorite actors, but if they also wear nice clothes in the movie, it adds even more charm to the whole film.

It is not surprising that many costumes and dresses from popular films are sold at auction for fabulous money, because there is sure to be a buyer for Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn dresses.

Here you will learn about the most expensive outfits worn by popular actors in famous films.

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Outfits from the movie “Sex and the City 2" 16+ (2010)

Price: 50,000 dollars

The heroines of this film are responsible for three things: spreading gossip, martini, and love for expensive clothes. Throughout the series and the first part of the feature film, they dressed nicely. However, the most expensive clothes were in this film, whose budget, paradoxically, is quite small by Hollywood standards — $10 million. In one scene in the film, where the heroines were in karaoke, the total cost of their outfits was $50,000.

Barbra Streisand's dress from the musical Hello Dolly! 0+ (1969)

Price: 55,000 dollars

In this movie, Barbra Streisand's character wears a beautiful $8,000 gold dress. (That's over $55,000 in today's money). The dress weighed almost 20 kg and was embroidered with 14-carat gold thread and covered with Swarovski crystals. Due to the weight of the dress, there were concerns on the set that Barbra would not be able to perform her dance numbers. As you can see, she did it:

Dresses and other things in Crazy Rich Asians 16+ (2018)

Based on the title of the film, you can already understand that the characters in it are wearing expensive things. In the book on which the film is based, you can hear the names of famous designers at every turn. The book also says that the suits are so expensive that special people were hired to protect them.

In addition, Kevin Kwan, the author of the book, told Time magazine that there is even a point in his work that presents the most expensive watch ever sold – Paul Newman Rolex Daytona.

In the film, however, the actors wear a lot of very expensive costumes. There are dresses from Valentino and Christian Dior, a collared dress from Alexander McQueen, and men's suits from Dolce & Gabbana and Versace.

Madonna's vest from Desperately Seeking Susan 18+ (1985)

Price: 252,000 dollars

At an auction where various celebrity outfits were presented, Madonna's vest went for 252,000, and the auction raised a total of $3,200,000.

It's also worth noting that Madonna's dress she wore during her “Who's That Girl” tour went under the hammer for $50,000.

And the black evening dress and shoes the singer wore in the movie “Evita” sold for $22,500, although the expected revenue was $4,000 to $6,000.

Marilyn Monroe's pink dress from Men Prefer Blondes 16+ (1953)

Price: $350,000

Although the original plan was to sell the dress at auction for $150,000, it ended up being sold for $350,000.

It should be noted that designer William Travill was the designer of the spectacular pink satin dress. When he started working with Marilyn Monroe, he already had an Oscar for his work in the 1948 film The Adventures of Don Juan. Travilla has worked on the actress's costumes in eight films.

Initially, it was planned to make a more revealing dress, but due to the fact that Monroe had recently starred naked for the 1949 calendar, the designer was given strict instructions to make a less revealing dress, but one that makes everyone forget about the scandalous photo.

Judy Garland's outfits from The Wizard of Oz 0+ (1939)

Price: $480,000

This rather simple cotton dress in the photo has become an incredibly popular outfit in film history over time.

The outfit was designed by costume designer Adrian Gilbert. In 2012, it sold at auction for $480,000, and the film's outfits grossed a total of $1,300,000 at auction.

Ruby shoes from the movie “The Wizard of Oz” 6+ (1939)

Judy Garland wore these ruby shoes in the movie. It is known that there are five pairs of such shoes in the world. The last one was sold at auction. The buyers were Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg, who later donated shoes to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Interestingly, another couple abducted during the Judy Garland Museum hack in 2005 was discovered by police in September 2018.

It is also known that one pair was sold at auction for $15,000 by an unknown client, and another pair of shoes was originally owned by a Tennessee woman, but in 1988, the auction house Christie's sold them for $150,000.

Black dress from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's 12+ (1961)

Price: 590,421 dollars

This is one of the most famous scenes in Hollywood history: Audrey Hepburn's character in her most iconic role, stepping out of a bright yellow cab onto New York's deserted 5th Avenue. She looks into Tiffany's window, in what is probably the most famous little black dress of all time.

After Hepburn's death in 1993, in order to continue her charitable work, the designer began donating items from his own collection to help disadvantaged children.

In 2006, a black dress designed by French designer Hubert de Givenchy was auctioned in London for £467,200 (about $590,000).

Outfits from the movie “The Sound of Music” 12+ (1965)

Price: $1,300,000

This film was released in 1965 and soon became the highest-grossing film, ahead of Gone With the Wind. For five years, it ranked first in terms of fees. The outfits made by the main character from old curtains for seven children are still recognizable all over the world, as is the Do-Re-Mi song they sing.

Costume designer Dorothy Jackins was even nominated for an Oscar. While Do-Re-Mi's outfits were actually made from real curtain material, they sold for $1.3 million at auction in 2013.

Ascot dress from the movie My Fair Lady12+ (1964)

Price: $3,700,000

The dress and hat that Audrey Hepburn wore in this movie were sold at auction for crazy money. The black and white Edwardian lace dress with a black bow was designed by the legendary Cecil Beaton, who in this painting worked as a costume designer and art designer supervisor. Thanks to his work, he was awarded an Oscar.

It is worth noting that the dress was used during a musical act in which a girl performed by Hepburn first gets acquainted with social life. The dress (and hat) was sold as part of the collection of famous American actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, who collected more than 3,500 costumes from various films in hopes of creating her own museum someday. Surprisingly, even this outfit is not the most expensive in the world.

Marilyn Monroe's white dress from “The Seven Year Itch” 16+ (1955)

Price: 5,600,000 dollars

The most expensive dress in the world belonged to Marilyn Monroe. It was sold at auction in Los Angeles in 2011 and, like the Hepburn dress, it was part of Debbie Reynolds' amazing collection, which also included a headdress Elizabeth Taylor from Cleopatra and Charlie Chaplin's hat.

When costume designer William Traville chose a dress for Monroe, he had no idea that she would stand above the subway bars and this shot would forever go down in film history. The dress was so small that it couldn't be worn on a size 2 mannequin. It is reported that over time, this silky white dress has faded, becoming yellowish-brown.

Bonus:

Astronaut costume for Sigourney Weaver for Alien 16+ (1979)

Price: 192,000 dollars

Thanks to Ridley Scott's Alien, lead actor Sigourney Weaver made her character Ellen Ripley the greatest female character in science fiction. Although she has had a lot of battles forgiving aliens over the years, the first and most memorable ones were in the first part, filmed in 1979. All that was in these battles was her suit, and her airlock.

Ripley's slightly inflated and very white space suit from the first film was sold at auction for an impressive amount. Other items that appeared in the Terminator and Star Wars movies were also sold at the same auction. In total, about 2,000 different items were sold and about $6 million was raised.

It should be noted that the costume of the main character of Alien is John Mollo, a British costume designer who won two Oscars for best costume design. The first was for Star Wars. Episode IV: A New Hope” and the second for the film “Gandhi”.

Steve McQueen racing suit from Le Mans 12+ (1971)

Price: $984,000

One of the three surviving costumes used in the 1971 film Le Mans sold in 2011 for $984,000.

Surprisingly, this iconic outfit has been owned by Timothy Davis from Wolverhampton, UK for over 40 years. After the film's release, a competition was held in the German magazine Bravo, in which Davis participated as a teenager hoping to win the grand prize, a Porsche 914. When he discovered that he had won an outfit (2nd prize) instead of a Porsche, he was very disappointed and put it in the drawer where it had been for the past 46 years.

Cowardly lion costume from the movie “The Wizard of Oz” 6+ (1939)

Price: $3,000,000

In 2014, the cowardly lion costume worn by Bert Lahr in the 1939 film sold at a New York auction for $3 million. The costume was made from real lion skins and weighs more than 27 kg. The suit sold at auction is filled with a special filler and has a mask on the face of Bert Lar's son. Along with the costume and mask, the result was a character that looked as much as possible to the lion from the movie.

The 10 most expensive movie outfits, including dresses and shoes

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