Nearly 80 years after Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” a two-piece ensemble the actress wore in the film has sold at auction for $137,000. Meanwhile, fashionistas fight back against the influx of Lilly Pulitzer collaborative products on eBay.
-Originally purchased by costume collector James Tumblin for just $20 in the 1960s, the two-piece ensemble worn by Vivien Leigh in “Gone With the Wind” pulls in $137,000 at auction. Other items from the film on the block included a wool suit worn by Clark Gable and the typewriter Sidney Howard used to write the screenplay. [Vogue UK]
-With more than 26,000 items from the Target-Lilly Pulitzer collaboration up for grabs on eBay, fashion fans have officially bitten back against resellers by calling for a boycott of all unsold items. “If no one buys from the eBay or Instagram groups that are currently price gouging they’ll be forced to drop the prices in a few weeks. This only works if everyone refuses to buy from any secondhand seller.” [Racked]
-Speaking of Target, why did the retailer’s website crash when its Lilly Pulitzer collaboration went live? Not properly accounting for online traffic — including mobile devices — likely led to the site’s impromptu problems. [Quartz]
-Hot on the heels of “Dior and I” comes another documentary — this one about reclusive Belgian designer Martin Margiela, dubbed “The Artist Is Absent.” The short film, directed by Alison Chernick, will be released Monday. [Dazed]
-American Apparel has been slapped with a lawsuit from three former employees, who claim that by cutting nearly 200 jobs in March, the clothing giant violated federal and state labor laws. [Jezebel]