The Christie’s Vivienne Westwood auction has been sold out. Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection, featuring iconic looks from her personal wardrobe, and The Big Picture, Vivienne’s Playing Cards, a limited-edition set of prints she designed as a strategy to save the world. The live and online auctions, in which all lots were successfully sold, have raised vital funds for charitable causes Dame Vivienne supported throughout her life: The Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Greenpeace.

The London exhibition drew 20,000 visitors, with both auctions attracting bidders from around the globe, from public institutions to Millennial and Gen Z admirers of Vivienne Westwood’s eponymous fashion house and supporters of her plight as an environmental campaigner.

The live and online auctions totaled £754,488, with The Big Picture, Vivienne’s Playing Cards taking top billing at £37,800. This was followed by a silk taffeta corset gown from the Autumn-Winter "Dressed to Scale" collection that Dame Vivienne wore to a gala event held in her honor at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Underscoring the designer’s belief that clothes should last forever, her hand-stitching is visible on the ‘Gaia The Only One’ "Cinderella" dress from Spring-Summer 2011, which sold for £25,200 against an estimate of £2,000–3,000. Her statement jewelry also performed well, particularly a faux-pearl choker with an "orb" pendant which sold for £10,080 after competitive bidding amid audible excitement from the London audience.

Spanning four decades of one of the most influential British designers of modern times, each item in the sales represented a significant moment in Vivienne Westwood’s life and career. The sale of the collection marks a unique moment in fashion history, celebrating the legacy of this trailblazing designer, punk icon, environmental campaigner, and philanthropist.