The auction of Suzy Menkes auction Christie: Chanel, YSL, Lacroix, and other designer wardrobe by fashion editor next month - How much will they give?

  Designer Victoria Beckham and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes. Menkes auctioned more than 80 pieces of his collection of clothing. Photo: Reuters

Suzy Menkes is the latest fashion maven to his collection of haute couture to auction. The veteran fashion journalist sold more than 80 objects from his personal collection of clothing. Christie will be sold exclusively online from 11 to 22 July.

The British writer was fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune, the international edition of The New York Times since 1988. Menkes was recently appointed fashion editor of the International New York Times, replace IHT. There are items auctioned it in 1960 by designers such as Pucci, YSL, Chanel and Christian Lacroix has collected.

"I've never seen anything thrown my wardrobe since 1964. If I had a large open space in my house, I would like to dedicate a gallery to my collection. But there is something sad clothing caught in a grave tribes" she said. Heiress Daphne Guinness also auctioned off their designer clothes, as well as YSL Muse Danielle Luquet Saint Germain.

"There are people who seem to see further than others, and Suzy Menkes is one of those," said Pat Frost, director of fashion at Christie. "You can always count on them to make a collection in context and see beyond the hype., So I was thrilled when she told us that she had decided to entrust the sale of Christie wardrobe because I knew it would not be fully of black trendy uniform wardrobe. As she says, are the clothes, such as friends, in this case, good friends, remember the good times. "

Gel also noted that early Menkes was a fan of Lacroix and sold several pieces of "its formative period." The collection of 69-year-old journalist has a black quilted Chanel bag with "Suzy" in gold letters, jacket Yves Saint Laurent in 1980, and Ossie Clark dresses circa 1970.

"You have to live," she says of her clothes, "and this auction is an opportunity for them to walk in the sun to dance the night away and give someone other pleasure they have given me."