Handwritten note from the dynamic actress signed to the French fashion designer, sending thanks for the clothing gifted to her and her husband, Keith Urban. In full, "Dear Christian / Thank you so much for the lovely clothes. It was so kind of you to think of Keith and me. / Many thanks, / Nicole".  Penned on her personal stationary. Undated. Unexamined out of frame but in apparently fine condition. 4.25 x 6.25 inches (11 x 16 cm). Frame: 10.5 x 12.5 inches (27 x 32 cm). 

French designer Christian Audigier was best known for his Ed Hardy and Von Dutch clothing lines. "Mr. Audigier began working in fashion in France, where he was born. But it was in the United States that he applied his talent for mythmaking and bombast most successfully. 'I was dreaming all my life of America, of the blue jean, of Marlon Brando,' he told GQ in 2009, 'and the trucker hat.' The mesh-backed trucker hat was the totem of Von Dutch, a line Mr. Audigier designed in the early 2000s, becoming a coveted item worn by numerous trendsetting celebrities of the decade.  After finding success with that company, Mr. Audigier left, and, in 2004, licensed the designs of a once obscure San Francisco tattoo artist named Don Ed Hardy. Mr. Audigier was an irrepressible marketer of his wares, and Ed Hardy tattoo prints — of skulls, tigers, roses and anything else that might have found a home on a midcentury’s sailor’s midsection — were soon ubiquitous, not only on clothes but on a wide variety of licensed products, including fragrances, air fresheners, wine and vodka. (nytimes.com, Christian Audigier Obituary)