Barbara Walters ‘ element is being dressed up.

If anyone could produce a child red coat look intimidating, it was Barbara Walters. In a 1989 discussion, the TV news anchor sported head to knee in mauve Chanel and pearls while poking fun at Libyan tyrant Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Again then Ms. Walters, who died in 2022 at the age of 93, reigned among the most famous, highly paid and fierce journalists in broadcast media. She set records as the first female co-host of the” Now” present, and she did it again as the first female outlet of the ABC night information. After in her decades- long occupation she migrated to the newsmagazine present” 20/20″ and to” The View”, the daytime talk show she cocreated.

Along the way Ms. Walters, who formally retired in 2014, became as famous as many of the high- profile subjects she interviewed, a group that included Katharine Hepburn, Anna Wintour, Michael Jackson and Monica Lewinsky, as well as several U. S. presidents and other world leaders, like Margaret Thatcher, Fidel Castro and Vladimir Putin.

Her wardrobe for such encounters was both carefully thought out and frequently audacious, and it was filled with brash hits of color as her fame grew. As part of a two-day event that attracted a steady stream of women in media eager to comb through racks of clothing the journalist had owned, Ms. Walters ‘ sartorial legacy was on display and available for purchase this week at a showroom in Midtown Manhattan.