The late André Leon Talley’s boundary-breaking fashion journalism helped people embrace and buy fashion, and Christie’s live sale Wednesday of things from his estate had an analogous effect.

Interest in Talley’s life and influence on aspiring fashion and design professionals has continued since his death last yr on the age of 73.

When the ultimate gavel was lowered Wednesday on the auction house’s Rockefeller Center outpost, the in-person sale of The Collection of André Leon Talley was a whole sellout. The entire tally was $1.38 million — well exceeding the presale estimate of $321,100 to $455,900 — and the entire lots were sold. Thirty percent of bidders were latest to Christie’s and greater than 40 percent of the brand new registered bidders were Millennials, the auction house said.

Amongst the many items that outperformed presale estimates was Talley’s red “Sleeping Bag” clutch coat by Norma Kamali, which sold for $25,200 — well above the presale opening-bid estimate of $500. Some might need recognized the outerwear from Talley’s ad for Ugg. More might associate it with the same looking floor-length puffer by Alaïa that Rihanna placed on midway through her halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl that was seen as a tribute to her late friend Talley. Afterward, a photograph of him wearing the Norma Kamali coat and a video of him with Rihanna was posted on Talley’s official Instagram page.

The previous Vogue creative director’s personal belongings were top sellers on the live sale. A set of three Louis Vuitton lacquered canvas suitcases monogramed along with his initials “ALT” raked in $94,500, outperforming its low-end pre-auction estimate by greater than 31 times. A pair of canvas hard-sided Louis Vuitton briefcases designed with splashes of graffiti by Stephen Sprouse sold for $69,300. One trunk, personalized with “André Leon Talley” painted in yellow that fans of the 2008 movie “Sex and the City” might recognize from his cameo, was auctioned for $44,100.

Other standouts were two illustrations by Karl Lagerfeld of Talley, which each sold for $32,760. Andy Warhol’s “Diana Vreeland Rampant (after Jacques Louis David, Napoleon at St. Bernard)” painting sold for $94,500. A 1996 Lagerfeld-shot photograph of the supermodels Kate Moss, Shalom Harlow and Naomi Campbell in bed went for $30,240. One other standout from the collection of art from his estate was photographer Bill Cunningham’s “Diana Vreeland and André Leon Talley, 1974” image sold for $13,230.

Proceeds of the sale will go toward the Abyssinian Baptist Church within the City of Latest York and the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina.