With the death of Elizabeth Taylor today, we lost not only a Hollywood icon and often-amazing actress, but one of the world’s most famous jewelry collectors. Her vivid, colorful life went on for decades longer than Taylor had expected it to, given her history of life-threatening injuries and illnesses – not to mention five...
Curator Sarah Coffin talks about the “Bejeweled Lives” section of the exhibit opening this Friday at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels.
As Sex and the City fans eagerly await the release of movie 2, a look back on that cocktail ring Samantha bid on in movie 1 - and the real auction and ring that inspired it.
"I'm duding up my shirtfront, putting in the shirt studs, polishing my nails..." Fred Astaire was steppin' out. Proper accessories were required. Today, Johnny Depp continues his legacy, while other Hollywood style icons follow Cary Grant's lead.
Whether it's fifties Hitchcock or seventies caper movies, jewels (especially diamonds) always make for the best Hollywood-style heist. Three classics that pack glamour, suspense and a nice payoff: To Catch a Thief, Le Cercle Rouge and Flawless.
