The iconic black cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany's is going up for auction.

It is expected to fetch up to £70,000 at Christie's later this year.

Hepburn wore the dress for her role as Holly Golightly in the classic 1961 film. It has become one of cinema's most enduring images.

In the opening sequence of the film she emerged from a cab in New York wearing the elegant black dress, peered wistfully into the window of Tiffany's and ate her breakfast from a brown paper bag.

The dress is being auct ioned in London in December by current owners Monsieur and Madame Lapierre to raise money for their charity, City of Joy Aid, which raises money for India's poor.