Elton John and his partner David Furnish are selling off more than 10,000 items of clothing for charity. The clothes are on sale from today for five days only at a specially created temporary shop, 'Elton's Closet', set up on the concourse of New York's Rockefeller Centre. The proceeds of the sale will go to the singer's Aids Foundation. Prices start at £8.50 for a T-shirt, rising to upwards of a grand for some of the more designer items.
Not surprisingly, given the size of the collection, it's all pretty much as-new. Elton says: "The clothes have hardly been worn - some of them haven't been worn. There's the most extraordinary collection of T-shirts, your baseball caps, your shoes, from flamboyance to classic. And spend some money to help other people who desperately need their lives to be changed and improved, and you'll be doing a really good thing."
The singer added: "David and I had great fun collecting and wearing these extraordinary clothes, but it's even more satisfying to see them help raise money for the Elton John Aids Foundation."