Bernard Arnault & A Hepburn Dress Help Build Kolkata School
February 24, 2007
What is the connection between Bernard Arnault, one of the top ten billionaires, Dominique Lapierre the famous author and Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood actress turned UNICEF ambassador?
Answer: A dress and lots of money used for a charitable purpose. Here's the low-down:
A famous black evening gown worn by Audrey Hepburn immortalised in her 1961 film, Breakfast At Tiffany's, was gifted to Dominique Lapierre, author of City of Joy, by French designer Hubert de Givenchy. The designer have it to Lapierre when the author mentioned he neede funds to rebuild a school destroyed by floods in West Bengal, India
Lapierre subsequently had the dress, an elegant long black shift worn with elbow-length gloves, put up for auction at Christie's in London in December 2006. To his amazement, the dress was bought for a princely sum of $850,000 by Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton
The school, Bodhodaya Vidya Mandir, will be one of a series run under the Lapierre Education Initiatives.
Original report here
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