We love the chase!
For the past four decades, the London-based Taylor has been a one-woman vintage whirlwind.
It wasnt always thus.
MOD GODDESSModel Peggy Moffitt in Rudi Gernreich. © William Claxton Archives/Demont Photo Management, LLC. All rights reserved.
It never used to make any money, she says, laughing.
Will people come to Jersey?
We thought, What would be better than to have a one hundred percent American auction?
(The collections provenance is impeccable: Moffitts son, Christopher Claxton, is the consignor.)
She was also deeply loyal to Gernreichs aesthetic legacy.
She basically kept the look, Taylor says, even into her old age.
(The Princess of Waless saucy semisheer slip dress achieved 65,000 pounds.)
(It sold for 50,000 pounds.)
A Chanel coat from 1917 might reach 70,000 pounds, she explains.
)replete with an ostrich-feather train by Lemariefrom the collection of the socialite Mouna Ayoub.
Even far newer pieces, though, can grab you by the throat.
She asked me, Will it hold value?
I told her, Yes, buy one!
Even without that fake butt, Taylor says, smiling, she looked fabulous.
