The 'iconic' conical-bra that triggered gals, nationwide, to re- consider the shape of their undergarments has now had a value stamped on it.
The famed brassiere that pop veteran Madonna wore in the course of her 1990 Blond Ambition tour, and 'Hanky Panky' heyday, fetched £32,450 - more than double the pre-sale estimate of £15,000 - at Christie's, last night time. A darn sight more than designer Jean-Paul Gaultier would even have believed for the green silk costume.
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Other items that stirred Madge supporters into a bidding frenzy bundled a black Lycra two-piece that the fifty four - yr - outdated wore to sing her hit single 'Vogue'. The suck-it-in physique -con desire marketed for for £16,250.
The Substance Girl's underwear was trumped in the auction stakes - which witnessed 160 pop lifestyle gems put underneath the hammer - by the £43,250 fetched for a 1947 painting of American actress Ava Gardner.
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A whip belonging to Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones from the motion trilogy moreover lifted a awesome £20,000. Rock lovers, in the meantime, jumped at the chance to pay £20,000 for a white, pearl-embellished, sleeveless jumpsuit put on by Rolling Stones entrance man Mick Jagger on their 1972 tour.
Followers with a penchant for pop star lycra better begin preserving Madonna's 'Hung Up' leotards are likely to fetch a tidy sum in twenty years, or so.
Madonna modelling a black lycra two-piece for the duration of her 1990 Blond Ambition tour. Photograph : Rex
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