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Top: Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jacket, which sold for $1.8 million at auction.


Below: John Lennon’s military band jacket, worth $240,000.


worn by John Lennon in 1966 for a Life Magazine photo shoot, is emblematic of Lennon’s singular fashion sense and style that inspired the cover for the Sergeant Pepper album and echoed in The Beatles’ appearance for years to come. It is believed to be a military band jacket that was in the possession of Lennon until donated to the Salvation Army in New York. This jacket represents the changing aesthetic of The Beatles and, indeed, a generation of music lovers who mimicked the repurposing of clothing and encouraged new meaning of military emblems to create juxtaposition for promoting peace. It sold for $240,000.


Probably the most significant item that went on sale in a celebrity auction was the Michael Jackson Red Thriller Jacket. The iconic jacket was worn by Jackson during the filming of the epic video Thriller which went on to become the top grossing single and the highest selling album of all time. The black and red style of the jacket became so identifiable with Jackson’s groundbreaking extended short film video for the single that he continued to use jackets of the same design when performing the


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