Lot 5
Lot 5
A PAIR OF PALE PINK LEATHER BALLET PUMPS

CIRCA 1960-1970

Price Realised GBP 3,750
Estimate
GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,500
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A PAIR OF PALE PINK LEATHER BALLET PUMPS

CIRCA 1960-1970

Price Realised GBP 3,750
Price Realised GBP 3,750
Details
Trimmed with pink Petersham ribbon



Exhibited
Audrey Hepburn: Una Donna, Lo Stile, Florence, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, 2009, no. 115.
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Lot Essay

By family tradition, these shoes were acquired from Capezio. Audrey’s son Sean remembers ‘bundles of these shoes arriving, folded flat, fastened by a rubber band’ and he suggests Hepburn may well have bought them en masse from Capezio, when her favourite model was discontinued.
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