If you were hoping to snag a sculpture of Adolf Hitler—World War 2-era German dictator and murderous, crazed motherfucker—well, we probably don’t have much in common. Also, you can’t have the one pictured above. It sold today for $17.2 million at auction.
A large collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia is going up for sale later this year in Los Angeles. What, like you needed to have life savings?
A humble wooden chair sold at a NYC auction for $394,000 on Wednesday—all because it happens to be the seat that J.K. Rowling planted her buns on while writing the first two Harry Potter books.
A letter from James Bond creator Ian Fleming is due to be auctioned off in the coming weeks. It reveals that while yes, Pussy Galore was a lesbian, she just needed a proper man to come along and fuck it out of her.
Just months before his death in February 2010, Alexander McQueen debuted the now-legendary Armadillo Boots in an astonishing Spring 2010 ready-to-wear runway show titled Plato’s Atlantis.
If you were the type of kid that watched The Little Princess starring Shirley Temple on repeat, you might be into news of the actress’s memorabilia being auctioned off. Costumes worn in some of Temple’s famous films, such as Curly Top and Bright Eyes will be sold, along with other items such as dolls, toys, props,…
Oprah is opening up her vault of fancy rich lady wares and holding an auction to rid herself of a few of her least favorite things. The items, culled from her Chicago home, make both zero sense and all the sense at the same time. I might not have originally thought that Oprah would be a fan of giltwood lamb…
If you need a little push to sprinkle some color into your wardrobe, consider this little communique from human argument for the glamour of sunglasses Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: "I just love this suit & will wear it everywhere as I am SO sick of everyone constantly in black — like Mediterranean villages where…
People spent more than $3.2 million buying memorabilia from Madonna's '80s glory days, proving people have too much damn money.
Sydney Leathers, the chick who turned her sexting relationship with Anthony Weiner into something resembling a media career, has really managed to stretch out her 15 minutes. But for Leathers, elongated infamy is one thing and elongated labia another. That's right, she's having labiaplasty. And she's auctioning off…
Axl Rose's ex is auctioning off some of the Guns N' Roses singer's love letters. Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are petty.
Christie's annual Vintage Couture sale starts next week in London, and the ten gowns up for auction have been revealed.
If diamonds are a girl's best friend, this giant rock auctioned off in Hong Kong today is… what? Life partner? Champion? Soul mate?
If you have literally nothing better to do with your money than buy Phyllis Vance's business cards*, you can bid on them and other items from NBC's The Office's set. So far, a picture of Jim and Pam is already at over a thousand dollars, but if you lose, holler at me, I'll make you one for $100. It was totally…
Of course, it might cost you a couple thousand, and that's only if the bidding stops there — it might go higher in an auction of two sweaty, stinky pieces of her Silver Linings Playbook costume.
It's cool that Christian Vanneque is excited to have the 200 year old bottle of white wine — created when Napoleon was Emperor — but does he know you can get a tasty white zin for $6.99?
Margaret Thatcher's black Asprey handbag is not fancy. It is, in fact, quite plain. Simple. Minimalist. Rigidly structured. Square. Devoid of decoration. But, as the Daily Mail reports, Margaret Thatcher's handbag holds an important place in political history. Thatcher used the handbag to carry important documents and…
Chuck Close's 2003 daguerrotype of Kate Moss nude (originally published in W) is being auctioned at Christie's. The estimated price is $11,400-$16,300; a signed nine-print set of the photos fetched $166,567 in 2007 (link NSFW). [WWD]
For some of us, the words "Charlotte Brontë's dollhouse" are tantamount to magic. The Jane Eyre author redecorated the "George II grained four-room 'baby' house circa 1750" when she was working as a governess for the wealthy Sidgwicks. The novelist wrote her sister Emily in 1839, "I now begin to find [Mrs Sidgwick]…
