Auction House Selling Items From Fashion Designer Christian Audigier’s Estate
Christian Audigier, the flamboyant in some cases outrageous character who helmed the Ed Hardy and Von Dutch style labels, was just 57 when he handed absent from cancer 7 several years in the past in Los Angeles. But he remaining a tattoo-inked trucker hat, graphic T-shirt and embellished denim legacy on L.A. fashion. And now, his personalized and assorted collection of art, home furnishings, guides and outfits have been consolidated and are currently being auctioned off by Abell Auction Co.
“We experienced to sift by way of a good deal of his items to tell a story,” explained Todd Schireson, vice president of the L.A. auction dwelling.
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Just one of the most prized things in the catalogue is a individualized Bobber motorbike intended by famous Yoshinobu “Yoshi” Kosaka, who has an L.A.-place bike shop named The Garage Enterprise. “The bike has a selected look to it,” Schireson mentioned. “Someone will recognize the motorbike for the bicycle itself or anyone will acquire it who appreciates Christian Audigier and will want to hold it.”
Schireson believes the Bobber motorbike at first value $100,000 to tailor made style and paint with Audigier’s identify prominently shown.
Other vital works incorporate a big selection of Mr. Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) paintings and numbered prints such as visuals of David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and many others. There are also numbered lithographs and prints by modern street artist Shepard Fairey.
Audigier, who was born in France, was a great good friend and enthusiast of French rock ‘n roll star Johnny Hallyday and collected some of his individual merchandise, like a metal-studded leather jacket now mounted in an acrylic circumstance.
The French designer, who was stated to have been operating with Michael Jackson on a outfits and accent line, had a prototype of a Jackson-inspired sequined and crystal glove framed in a shadow box frame.
There are also designer garments and shoes by Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Tom Ford, Salvatore Ferragamo and Dolce & Gabbana.
Schireson believes the collection will fetch in between $250,000 to $500,000.
“Christian picked each and every item with extraordinary treatment and enthusiasm and experienced a quintessential eye for fashion and structure,” mentioned Vincent Audigier, the executor of his late uncle’s estate, in a statement. “Nothing was random.”
Audigier worked with a great deal of blue-denims firms in advance of arriving in L.A., where he started doing the job with the Von Dutch label. He took that brand to new heights by teaming with celebrities this kind of as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, who ended up often found sporting the well-liked mesh-backed Von Dutch trucker hats in the early Aughts.
The French designer still left Von Dutch in 2004 to commence the Ed Hardy label, which took visuals by San Francisco tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy and included them to a variety of groups, together with T-shirts, dresses, purses, jackets, swimsuits, shoes and even a vodka label.
Audigier sold Ed Hardy to Iconix Manufacturer Team in 2011 for $62 million.
The Audigier auction will just take area on the net May 12 to 13. A comprehensive catalogue of the assortment will be viewable at www.abell.com on April 29.
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