![]() “Of course, it was all part of the grunge aesthetic - that you didn’t want anything too new or too pretty. And, of course, this being Seattle, it was cold, it was rainy. “It was part of a much larger trend in Seattle in the early Nineties, where people were buying vintage, recycling clothes, and creating clothes from found objects,” she says. God, I don’t want to wear this.’”Ĭobain was a frequent thrift shopper and likely purchased the sweater at a second-hand shop, according to Chrisman-Campbell. “It’s like when they say you should walk in somebody else’s shoes. “It’s kind of a weird, powerful thing when you do something like that, when we put on somebody else’s ,” he said. “The stains are still there.” Kletjian confirms that he’s kept the sweater in mint-grunge condition he put it on only once, but took it off after less than 40 seconds. “It’s very important that we don’t wash it,” Darren Julien of Julien’s Auctions told Rolling Stone earlier this month. ![]() The cardigan is now worth more than 8,000 times its approximate original price - despite (or, rather, because of) the funk. ![]() However, Chrisman-Campbell located a Manhattan brand ad from the early Sixties in which a similar sweater cost $15.95. Perry Ellis no longer employs anyone who worked at Manhattan Industries during that era, so Medici can’t confirm which line the piece came from. When the sweater arrived at Kletjian’s house via overnight mail, he says, “I opened it up and it immediately hits me: ‘Oh, now I’m also going to be responsible for this.’ It was kind of like when my children were born years ago I was so happy to see them, but then I was like, ‘Oh no…’ ” Garrett Kletjian, the owner of professional race car team Forty7 Motorsports, is the current self-described “custodian” of the garment he purchased it at Julien’s Auctions in November 2015. The story of where it came from and what happened to it is more than a half-century long. But more than 25 years ago, it was wrapped around Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance. The cardigan’s not studded with diamonds or knit by a couture atelier. ![]() Still, the last time it sold, it fetched a whopping $137,500. It smells like a grandmother’s musty attic. There’s a missing button and two cigarette burns. It has a mysterious stain in one of its pockets - “some kind of brown, crunchy something in there,” according to the sweater’s owner, which he guesses could be chocolate, or vomit. He used it into the early 1990s.Īrchivists going through Prince’s possessions at his Paisley Park home and musical headquarters in Minnesota recently found the guitar that was thought to be lost during the four years since his death from an overdose at age 57.Īlso Friday, a macrame belt that Elvis Presley wore about 30 times on stage brought in nearly 10 times its expected price, with a final bid of $298,000, and an ivory gown worn by Madonna in her 1990 “Vogue” video sold for $179,200.The world’s most expensive cardigan is locked in a gun safe in rural Pennsylvania. Prince played the blindingly blue guitar with the artist’s “love” symbol on its neck beginning on the 1984 Purple Rain Tour, as well as on the classic albums Lovesexy and Sign O’ The Times. Prince’s Custom Guitar From the 1980s Brings Big Dollars at AuctionĪ day earlier at the same auction event, a custom guitar played by Prince at the height of his stardom in the 1980s and 1990s sold for $563,500, a small sum compared with the Cobain guitar but well over the $100,000 to $200,000 it was expected to fetch.
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