Roughly one year after her passing, Doris Brynner’s personal belongings will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in Paris in late January, bringing to light her exquisite taste — and recounting her colorful life via fashions, furnishings, art and memorabilia.

A lifelong collector of designer clothing, jewelry, baskets, books, tableware and more, Brynner never threw anything out, including receipts for her Balenciaga couture gowns and every postcard she ever received, according to her daughter Victoria Brynner, who sifted through a vast stash of belongings and keepsakes packed into her late mother’s Paris apartment and house near Lausanne, Switzerland.

An exhibition during Paris Couture Week will precede the Jan. 27 sale, whose star lots include brooches that once belonged to Audrey Hepb

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