We love chasing! Kerry Taylor, the founder of the Kerry Taylor auction, is packing with 17th-century gentleman ruffs, but she is just as excited about the 1960s Rudi Gernreich kite dress, which is about to be released.
London-based Taylor has been a whirlwind for single women for the past four decades. After joining Sotheby’s in 1980, just after graduating from Art College, she spent her next 23 years there and then struggled alone – her business history could be a primer for the desirability, value and price increase in collectible fashion.
Not always. “It’s never used to make money,” she laughed. But what changed: The iconic Saint Laurent Mondrian dress since 1965 was sold at an early auction in Taylor for only 2,000 pounds, but by 2011 the price had shrunk to 27,000 pounds – who knows what would be aware of today?
On the day we spoke, Taylor was preparing for an auction called “Martin Margiela, Early Years: 1988-94”. (The grey speechless like a stunning deconstructed sleeve will be sold for over €101,000, a world record for Margiela.) However, she will soon open in the New York metropolitan area of the Mana Center for Contemporary Art in Jersey City. “Will people come to Jersey?” she asked uncertainly. Yes, I promised her: vintage clothing fanatics would log in the deep mud at the waist, for example, looking at a velvet Poiret Opera coat or Westwood-Mclaren Seditionaries T-shirt.
Taylor filmed the collection of the late Peggy Moffitt at the first U.S. National Auction in May, known for her role model and Muse, revolutionary designer Rudi Gernreich. “We think what’s better than a 100% U.S. auction?” Taylor said. (The source of the series is impeccable: Moffett’s son, Christopher Claxton, is the shipper.)
Moffitt is known for her raccoon eyes and the stark vidal sassoon coiffure and her invasion of fashion with Gernreich. (Gernreich is not only a pioneer of designers, but also very brave: he was one of the founders of Mattachine Society, an early gay organization, dating back to 1950.) She is also very loyal to Gernreich’s aesthetic legacy. “She basically maintained her appearance, even to her old age,” Taylor said. In 2003, Moffitt collaborated with Rei Kawakubo to recreate a series of Gernreich works under the Commedes Garçons label, which are also on sale, and hundreds of other items, including the Gernreich’s normal shattered Monokini Monokini, a legendary single-piece glass-paired swimsuit.
Some of the high prices she ordered were the result of a bidding war between museums that wanted to make up for their fragile acquisitions under glass and intended to wear them, they intended to wear them. So far, more and more celebrities have embraced antiques, such as the pale lemon empire worn by Ariana Grande on Golden Globes, which is a bright lemon empire number, for example, was a custom made by Giverchy in spring 1966.
