LONDON (Reuters) - Suzy Menkes, Fashion Editor of the International Herald Tribune, made announcement for an online two week auction for her label wardrobe. Menkes want buyers to enjoy the auction, as bids will be open for 80 lots of clothes, including jackets, skirts, dresses, and many accessories in trunks from one of many designers from YvesSaint Laurent to Christian Lacroix. The top lot is up to 2,000 pounds, the 1980's Yves Saint Laurent cocktail jacket of the "le soleil" collection. Items will auction for individual lots start at 200 pounds ($300) and up.
Menkes confessed she has not "thrown anything out of my wardrobe since 1964."
Menkes is inspired by designers Britain's Vivienne Westwood, Daphne Guinness, Italian fashion writer Anna Piaggi, English model Erin O'Connor.
"They need to live again and this auction provides the opportunity for them to walk out in the sunshine, to dance the night away and to give someone else the joy that they gave to me," she said.
Estimates for individual lots start at 200 pounds ($300), with the majority on offer for under 1,000 pounds. The star lot of the sale is an Yves Saint Laurent cocktail jacket from his 1980 collection 'le soleil' estimated at up to 2,000 pounds.
Menkes follows in the footsteps of British designer Vivienne Westwood, fashion trendsetter Daphne Guinness, English model Erin O'Connor and Italian fashion writer Anna Piaggi by selling much of her collection via a single-owner auction at Christie's.
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