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[quote user="m.inya"][quote user="CHRIS"]unless i read incorrectly, the buyer has to pay a 22.5% premium on top of the winning price.[/quote]yeah, that's the nasty part. thankfully I'm going to be spending the summer in England, so I'll either be able to pick up the goods in London or have them shipped to where I'm staying, which hopefully won't be too outrageous.
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One of the Junya lot is definitely worth it and so are some of the shoe lots...
SPRING cleaning, as anyone
with a small closet would recognize, is a journey that ends either by
giving up too much, or simply giving up.
Daphne Guinness, the socialite and couture collector, only recently
discovered that this maxim applies just as readily to owners of large
closets. In the process of moving her London home, she decided to clear
the racks. She set aside about 1,000 pieces, including spectacular
items from Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Alexander McQueen, to sell in an auction to benefit Womankind, a charity that supports women in developing countries.
?It was quite a difficult process,? she said. ?Like when the idea first happened, I thought it would be easy.?
Ms. Guinness sounded genuinely surprised to discover that it was
not. She is known as one of the most original dressers of her
generation, one who will pair Chanel couture with gaudy shoes and then
vamp fearlessly through a party, recognizable by the hairstyle
equivalent of the black-and-white cookie. (She is also really sweet.)
She herself designs, having created a collection of white shirts
with Comme des Garçons that is sold at Dover Street Market, the
company?s store in London.
Sorting through the clothes she had acquired over 20 years, Ms.
Guinness could recall what inspired to her buy each piece and sometimes
the places she wore them.
?The thing is, most of the clothes I really still like,? she said,
including those that never quite made it onto her back. ?Some of them
were unworn for a reason. I bought them just to look at.?
The sale, organized by Kerry Taylor, an auction house, kerrytaylorauctions.com,
is to take place on Tuesday in London. Bids can also be made on eBay
during the event. A typical lot of shoes includes four or more styles
from Jimmy Choo, Prada or Yves Saint Laurent;
low estimates range from £40 to £200 (about $79 to $396, at $1.98 to
the pound). Seven Marni coats are grouped together for £200, and a
Lanvin shredded ribbon dress starts at £300 ($594).
?In the end, I went a little bit overboard,? Ms. Guinness said. ?I
probably am getting rid of more than I envisioned initially. But the
whole point is that you can?t just give away your old rubbish. That?s
just not interesting at all.?
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
Thanks theetruscan. I appreciate the reassurance on the sizing. I'm usually am a 44.5 Euro so it should fit me well. Considerably also that these don't have high up toe box, thus going one size higher be better, so it should work out.
How did the brown CCP boots fit you? It finally got around for you to get them. You bought it at a great price too I might add. I remember you mentioned about it as the one that got away. What CCP size are you usually?
[quote user="Trendy Andy"]Thanks theetruscan. I appreciate the reassurance on the sizing. I'm usually am a 44.5 Euro so it should fit me well. Considerably also that these don't have high up toe box, thus going one size higher be better, so it should work out.
How did the brown CCP boots fit you? It finally got around for you to get them. You bought it at a great price too I might add. I remember you mentioned about it as the one that got away. What CCP size are you usually?[/quote]
I don't know my usual CCP size. These are my first CCP boots, and they don't appear to have a size marked, unless the 52 refers to a size, but I'm guessing it is number of the pairs made. Because they definitely aren't size 18 or whatever.
They're a little long, but since they (in my estimation) run narrow, it will work out with a thin insole. I'd guess I picked up more of a size 46 than 45 with those, and I'm a true 45. The color is lighter than in the pictures by a fair bit. I like the boots still, not quite blown away, but they're certainly nice. I'm considering sending them to Ron Rider to be hand colored a deeper antiqued brown, but not sure how that'll work out.
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