Britain's late Princess Diana, a sweater with a red background with a sheep pattern before her death, was recently auctioned at Sotheby's in London;
It ended up selling for a whopping $1.1 million, 14 times Sotheby's original estimate of $50,000 to $80,000.
This sweater is higher than the $334,000 sweater jacket worn by Kurt Cobain in 2019, breaking the sweater auction record.
There is a black sheep on the sweater, so it is also known as the "black sheep" sweater, which turns out to have a special meaning behind it!
The sweater was designed in 1979 by designers Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne of the brand's Warm & Wonderful;
Princess Dia noticed that the cuffs were torn after wearing it, so she sent the sweater back to the original factory from Buckingham Palace, and the designer finally recreated a new version for Diana.
Diana wore the sweater to polo events shortly after her engagement to Charles in 1981;
In 1983, he wore a remastered version to attend polo tournaments.
Set an auction record
Among the previous Princess Diana's costumes, the highest selling price was a 1989 ball dress by designer Victor Edelstein, which sold for $604,800 this year.
Dancing with Princess Dai at that time was the then young actor John Travolta;
In the conservative atmosphere of the royal family, it is not common for royals to dance happily with movie stars;
Wearing this black dress, Dai Fei made major news headlines the next day.
Metaphor for being a black sheep in the royal family
The sweater is woven with multiple white sheep motifs, and only a lone black sheep stands out from the flock, and Black Sheep means "black sheep" in English.
Later, some analysts believed that Princess Dai chose to wear the sweater again in 1983 to declare to the world that she felt like a black sheep of the royal family.
As we all know, Princess Dai could not adapt after marrying into the royal family, and once wrote a letter to her friend Dudley Pollack to explain that she was isolated and misunderstood in the royal family.
Therefore, it is generally believed in history that this black sheep sweater is not only a metaphor for Princess Dai's deliberate actions, but also foreshadows her destiny of being incompatible with the royal family.
Perhaps what defines the value of this sweater today.