Matthew Broderick’s Vest in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Could Sell For Up to $600K at Auction (2025)
Matthew Broderick’s vest in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ could sell for up to $600K at auction
The iconic garment is expected to fetch bids $300,000 to $600,000 at Sotheby’s by June 24.
By David K. Li
June 5, 2025
Anyone with a half-million dollars of loose change to spend on a piece of iconic ’80s fashion? Anyone? Anyone?
The vest Matthew Broderick donned nearly 40 years ago for “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is going under an auctioneer’s hammer with an estimated price $300,000 to $600,000.
Sotheby’s auction house is set to take bids on the garment, owned by former ESPN reporter Darren Rovell, until 2:01 p.m. ET June 24
The vest has minimal “pilling and loose threads consistent with age and production-use,” Sotheby’s said.
Broderick, 63, was a successful young Broadway actor when he became a household name thanks to the classic John Hughes coming-of-age comedy.
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