Jagger to sell the shirt off his back — for tragic L’Wren

SIR MICK JAGGER was devastated when his long-term partner, fashion designer L’Wren Scott, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment seven years ago.

Now to keep her legacy alive, the Rolling Stones frontman reveals he is initiating a sale of her dress collection, set to raise as much as £115,000, to boost a scholarship in her name at Central Saint Martins in London.

The 77-year-old father of eight met the former model — real name Laura — in 2001, and was in a romantic relationship with her until she took her own life, aged 49, after a struggle with depression.

On what would have been her 57th birthday this week, Sir Mick wrote in tribute: ‘ Your work continues to inspire a new generation of designers.’

He also revealed that a collection of her dresses will be put up for auction at Christie’s in June, with proceeds going to her scholarship fund at London’s University of the arts.

The collection, which will be sold online from June 9 to July 1, comprises 55 curated lots designed by Scott between 2008 and 2014. They were worn either by L’Wren or her clients such as Nicole Kidman, Madonna and Naomi Campbell. The items also include two bespoke stage jackets — expected to sell for up to £30,000 each — that Scott custom-designed for Mick. One is the ‘glamouflage’ jacket he wore to headline glastonbury (below) the year before her death. It is made of black satin and is beaded, sequined and embroidered with oak-leaf motifs in green, black and khaki. Mick, now in a relationship with U.S. ballerina Mel Hamrick, 33, mother of his four-year- old son, launched the scholarship at Central Saint Martins in 2015. June’s sale will fund the renewal of the L’Wren Scott Scholarship, which has been awarded annually ever since to cover the two- year Ma fashion course’s fees and help with living costs. ‘I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way,’ Mick said at the time of L’Wren’s death. ‘We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves. ‘ She had great presence and her talent was very much admired, not least by me. I will never forget her.’