Andre Leon Talley’s collection sold at auction for $3.6 million.

According to auction house Christie’s, the sale of the collection of the late fashion icon and writer AndrĂ© Leon Talley brought in nearly $3.6 million. numbers released A medium that included custom-made Louis Vuitton trunks and Andy Warhol artwork.

Tuesday’s private auction featured 66 items, including items from the Vogue editor’s wardrobe, art collection and even furniture from his home, and raised about $1.4 million. An additional 350 items were available in a separate online auctionwhich ended on Thursday, and brought in about $2.16 million.

Income the auctions will benefit the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York and Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, where Talley grew up, “both of whom were close to Mr. Talley’s heart,” the auction house said.

The least expensive item sold was a lot ten pairs of gloves, which cost $756. The most expensive three items, which sold for $94,500 each, included two pieces by the late Andy Warhol and a set of three personalized suitcases from Louis Vuitton.

Talley’s editorial career spanned nearly 50 years, from 1975 to 2013, and included work at Vanity Fair, W, and Vogue, where he was the magazine’s first black male creative director. He died in January 2022 at the age of 73, less than two years after the publication of his controversial memoir In the Chiffon Trenches.

Rihanna paid tribute to Talley on her Super Bowl halftime show by wearing a giant red Alaya down jacket that resembled Talley of the same name. Bright Crimson Back Sleeping Coat by Norma Kamali. The coat was a well-known fashion item for Talley and was sold at a live auction for more than $25,000, well over the $500–$800 estimate.

Talley’s Instagram account is still active, and on Monday he posted the lyrics to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” – her penultimate song in her Super Bowl performance – tagged the singer in the photo caption.

“The tribute to Rihanna made me tear up,” socialite Patricia Altshul, a friend of Tally’s, commented.

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