NEW YORK: Elton John is selling thousands of pieces of his personal wardrobe to raise money for his AIDS charity.

The sale, which runs from April 11-15, included 10,000 coats, sweaters, suits and other garments worn by John and his partner, David Furnish.

A temporary shop, Elton’s Closet, was set up in the concourse of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan for the sale. Proceeds benefit The Elton John Aids Foundation.

Items included a black Versace suit with John’s song titles — including Tiny Dancer and Rocket Man — woven into the fabric and the polka-dot Richard James suit John wore when he performed with Eminem at the 2001 Grammy Awards.

“The clothes have hardly been worn. Some of them haven’t been worn,” said the 59-year-old singer at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “There’s the most extraordinary collection of T-shirts, your baseball caps, your shoes, from flamboyance to classic. And spend some money to help other people who desperately need their lives to be changed and improved, and you’ll be doing a really good thing.”