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Vintage Couture Just Had Its Breakout Sale

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Fair Warning brought vintage couture to auction for the first time and watched the results climb to $3.2 million. For a category that has largely changed hands quietly, through dealers and private closets, a single sale of that size is a signal collectors don't often get. It suggests archival fashion is starting to draw the kind of bidding once reserved for fine art and design.

With reporting from Artnet News.

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