Drawings by Karl Lagerfeld sold for almost three times the auction estimate

An auction of illustrations by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld sold for nearly triple the estimate at Sotheby's in Paris.

The 'White Glove Sale' - where all lots were sold - raised a total of €350,406 (£300,000) and included an unprecedented assemblage of Lagerfeld's fashion sketches, taken from his apartments at 8 rue des Saints-Pères and 17 quai Voltaire.

The priciest lot of Wednesday night's sale was a colorful sketch for French fashion house Chloé drawn at the early 1970s, sold for €40,320 The oldest was a folder of 25 sketches from 1969, also for Chloé, which fetched €32,760, its plastic sleeves also contained s photographs of models wearing patterns and newspaper clippings from the collection.

"He was a paper man," said auction commissioner Caroline Lescure. "He kept everything - it was his archive.

"Lagerfeld was a fashion genius. He stayed for so many years at Chloé and Chanel, and yet he always wanted to go beyond the last thing he did. We can see this vision in his sketches."

The auction was the fourth sale of Lagerfeld's residences; the works spanned 40 years of his career, from 1969 to 2018. He died in February 2019.