Worn By: Whitney Houston
Year: 1992
Value: $12,500*
As one website put it, The Bodyguard was a “pop culture Ground Zero” event. The movie starred Whitney Houston as a superstar singer who hires a bodyguard, played by Kevin Costner, to keep her safe against a creepy stalker sending her threats.
The romance made $411 million at the box office ($833.9 million in today’s dollars), and one of the most famous looks from the film was Houston’s “Queen of the Night” regalia. The metal-based piece sold at auction for $12,500, even though it had rips and tears from filming and a few areas had chrome balls and beads missing.