26-02-2025
Chappell Roan's 'Hot to Go' Music Video Costume Sells for $89K in Benefit Auction for L.A. Wildfire Relief
A piece of Chappell Roan's wardrobe was the highest selling item in a benefit auction brimming with items for the pop culture-obsessed!
The star's iconic 'Hot to Go' music video 'fit — a vintage sequined marching band unitard and strappy, knee-high boots — sold for a whopping $88,900 in Julien's Auctions' Give a Frock Auction. The auction house announced the winning bid — the highest of the entire auction! — on Tuesday, Feb. 25, following the conclusion of the event, which raised funds for Los Angeles wildfire relief.
Ahead of the pop culture-centric benefit auction, the company estimated that glittering blue and gold unitard — which Roan, 27, also wore on stage at Outside Lands Festival last summer — and size 7 Jeffrey Campbell boots would go for $1,000 to $2,000, meaning it earned 88 times the lowest estimated selling price, and 44 times the highest.
The sparkling, vintage ensemble — curated by Roan's stylist, Genesis Webb — was just one of the pieces she donated to the wildfire relief fundraiser.
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Other pieces from the 'Pink Pony Club' singer that sold for 'top prices,' Julien's Auctions said, were the (similarly fringe-heavy) purple two-piece ensemble she wore at Sacramento venue Goldfield Trading Post, and the green, ultra-platform Marc Jacobs boots she wore in her cover photo shoot for Rolling Stone last fall.
The purple set sold for $22,225 — over 22 times more than its estimated selling price of $1,000 — while the platforms raked in a grand total of $6,350.
And Roan wasn't the only pop girly whose iconic pieces did numbers in the relief auction. Items worn by Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Hayley Williams, Olivia Rodrigo and the inventor of BRAT herself, Charli xcx, also sold for thousands.
The iconic polka-dot co-ord Carpenter, 25, wore in her 'Taste' music video — Blondita's popular Gwen set — sold for $22,225, while the hooded Alaïa minidress she wore in her 'Please Please Please' music video (the pre-Dolly Parton version!) boasted a winning bid of $34,925. (An outfit Jenna Ortega wore in the 'Taste' video alongside the star also sold for $13,000.)
Meanwhile, the Rodarte gown Rodrigo, 22, wore at the premiere of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 2023 fetched $10,160, and two outfits worn by Charli, 32 — a bridal-inspired ensemble and custom Gucci 'fit she wore during her Sweat Tour — went for $22,225 and $8,890 in the auction, respectively.
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Ear clips worn by Eilish, 23, fetched $5,715 in the auction, and two outfits worn by Paramore frontwoman Williams — one in the band's "This Is Why" music video and one for an opening performance at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour — raked in $16,250 and $13,000 for wildfire relief.
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Items from Dave Grohl, the Beastie Boys, Garbage's Shirley Manson and more artists also fetched high winning bids in the benefit auction, whose proceeds went toward four organizations: One Voice, Altadena Girls, Pasadena Humane and Friends in Deed.
In a statement shared after the auction, Martin Nolan, the executive director and co-founder of Julien's Auctions, said, 'We are thrilled with today's wildly successful auction and beyond grateful and overwhelmed by the support of all of the stars, who unified together to give us their most iconic frocks and pieces to rock for a good cause.'
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