«Shower Dress» (Karl Lagerfeld)
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«Shower Dress», a dress that Karl Lagerfeld designed for Chloé in 1983, finds its way into Martin Kamers collection two years later for 750 British pounds before he sells it to the Kyoto Costume Institute. In 2019, over 30 years later, the dress of the same type changed hands at an auction in Chicago for 32,500 US dollars.
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