It was the second time that the sweater had been sold. It is now the property of an anonymous buyer who picked it up for $334,000 in a 2019 auction at the New York auction house Julien’s. It would also feature Jennifer Aniston’s wedding dress from the Friends pilot, Aaliyah’s Tommy Hilfiger underwear and the modest pastel-colored cardigans that actresses wore over their spaghetti-strap dresses on the red carpet.Īmong all those garments would also be the weathered cardigan that Kurt Cobain wore when he recorded MTV Unplugged with Nirvana. It would include the Virgin Airlines sweatshirt that Lady Diana Spencer wore one day while leaving the gym, the checked miniskirt suit that Alicia Silverstone donned in Clueless and the combo metallic skirt and baby-sized Angora jersey that all the supermodels wore in the golden age of Versace. Other notable sales at Julien’s Auctions this weekend included Elvis Presley’s 1974 gold Mercedes-Benz 450 ($125,000), a Jimi Hendrix-autographed copy of Are You Experienced? ($45,000), a Heroes-era David Bowie self-portrait ($51,000) and Bernie Taupin’s handwritten lyrics for Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” in a custom Wizard of Oz frame ($75,000, well over its $6,000 pre-auction estimate).The 1990s, or what we understand as the 1990s, have been resurrected so many times that almost every teenager with a Vinted or Depop account and Instagram access can make a list of the decade’s most iconic garments. The guitar, which was previously housed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, came with a handwritten letter by Courtney Love, who stated that the instrument was among Cobain’s favorite. Remarkably, the Unplugged sweater’s $334,000 sale price wasn’t the highest bid on a Cobain-related item at Julien’s Icons & Idols: Rock ‘N’ Roll auction: His custom-built Fender Mustang guitar, used by the Nirvana frontman on the In Utero Tour, sold for $340,000. There’s even cigarettes burns that you can see on the sweater.” ![]() “It’s very important that we don’t wash it,” Darren Julien of Julien’s Auctions told Rolling Stone earlier this month. Kurt Cobain’s guitar and ‘Unplugged’ sweater at the Julien’s Auctions event Julien's Auction The sweater was accompanied with a handwritten letter of provenance from Jackie Farry, Frances Bean Cobain’s nanny and a close friend of Courtney Love, who gifted Farry with the sweater following Cobain’s death in April 1994. Once again, the olive green Manhattan brand sweater exceeded expectations upon its sale at Julien’s Auctions: In November 2015, Cobain’s sweater - “a blend of acrylic, mohair and Lycra with five-button closure (one button absent), with two exterior pockets, a burn hole and discoloration near left pocket and discoloration on right pocket” - sold for $137,500 through Julien’s Auctions, far exceeding the sweater’s pre-auction estimate of $60,000.Īhead of Saturday’s auction, the sweater had already surpassed its $200,000 minimum bid before bidding blew past the item’s $300,000 pre-auction estimate. ![]() Kurt Cobain‘s famed green cardigan from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000 at auction Saturday, establishing a new record for the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction and more than doubling its final-bid sale price from just four years ago.
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