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‘Star Wars’: Leia’s Original Slave Bikini from ‘Return of the Jedi’ Auctioned for $175,000
The bikini worn by Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars’ Episode VI has changed hands again, this time for a whopping $175,000.
Items used in movies are coveted collectibles, especially when they are iconic films like the ‘Star Wars’ saga. Recently, one such item was auctioned off for a whopping $175,000: none other than the bikini worn by the late Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia during ‘Return of the Jedi,’ the third film in George Lucas’ original trilogy.
The bikini worn by Carrie Fisher in ‘Return of the Jedi’ has been auctioned off for a stratospheric amount
On July 26, the auction of the “bikini” worn by Carrie Fisher as Leia in ‘Return of the Jedi’ (1983) on the American website Heritage Auctions ended when no one else was able to beat a private bid of $175,000. About 160,000 euros at the exchange rate that will soon be said.
The garment is a seven-piece set that includes the bikini itself, a wrist cuff and an arm cuff, and was created by Richard Miller, chief sculptor at Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects company founded by George Lucas, the creator of “Star Wars”.
This is one of the most coveted items by “Star Wars” fans, which was auctioned in 2016 for $96,000. It is one of the most iconic costumes of the saga, which made Carrie Fisher a sex icon for audiences of the films. Fisher herself even said at the time that when Lucas first showed it to her and told her to wear it, she thought he was joking.
In the movie, the character’s justification for wearing these clothes is that she was captured and enslaved by the evil Jabba the Hutt on the planet Tatooine.
Why can objects originally used in movies be worth so much money?
Items that have been part of a film production are highly sought after in the collecting and auction world for two main reasons: they have been used in the films themselves and as such have never been available to the public, making them extremely rare.
The fact that one of these items was used by a particular actor or actress also arouses the passions of individual fans of the performer, and this interest grows exponentially when that person is deceased, as is the case with Fisher.