Blackboards from ‘Tiffany’s’
A school in eastern India built with money raised in the auction of Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black dress was inaugurated by French author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre.
About 200 children will attend the school in Bishnupur, a village 30 miles south of Kolkata.
The school is one of 15 to be built in West Bengal state with $807,000 paid by high bidder Givenchy, now a division of LVMH, at an auction in December at Christie’s in London.
Hepburn wore the elegant sleeveless sheath in the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
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