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• Here’s your chance to acquire an epic Christian Lacroix confection or capture an elusive pair of “Angel Wing” platform ankle boots (pictured) by Alexander McQueen. This evening in London, Christie’s will sell 100 pieces from the personal wardrobe of Daphne Guinness. She’ll use proceeds from the sale—which includes haute couture and accessories from designers such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Christopher Kane, and Gareth Pugh—to launch a charity in the name of Isabella Blow, whose sartorial estate she purchased in 2011 (to save it from being dispersed among high bidders). The new Isabella Blow Foundation will seek to continue Blow’s support of “new and emerging talent in the sphere where art and fashion meet,” a cause also dear to Guinness’s heart.

• A watercolor-and-gouache drawing by Salvador Dalí was stolen from its spotlit perch on the wall of Venus over Manhattan, art collector Adam Lindemann‘s newly opened gallery on New York’s Upper East Side. The thief grabbed “Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio,” valued at $150,000 and owned by Lindemann, and stuffed it into a black shopping bag before walking out. Security camera footage shows him wearing a determined expression and a gingham shirt. “There was a security guard standing right there, so how you don’t see a young, sweaty guy with a shopping bag I don’t understand,” Lindemann told The New York Times. “I don’t really understand what’s the point. What do you do with a stolen drawing by Dalí?”
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