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Diamonds Give Stars Extra Glitter At Oscars
And A $2M Lift to One Singer
A galaxy of stars glittered at the 76th Annual Academy Awards last year with extra sparkle added by diamonds draped on necks, dripping from ears and dazzling on fingers.Best supporting actress winner Renee Zellweger, wearing a vintage diamond Riviera necklace by Cartier, was particularly dazzling.
"It feels like old Hollywood for some reason to me, the glamour of old Hollywood," she explained. "It is like this really long-lived tradition. I kind of wanted to be part of that tonight, I guess."
Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman wore a 195-carat necklace with natural green diamonds by Bulgari, Scarlett Johansson wore a 30-carat cluster necklace by De Beers and Angelina Jolie wore a $10 million Athena necklace by H. Stern.
Long, dangling earrings framing stars' faces were spotted everywhere with best actress winner Charlize Theron showing off diamond shooting star drop earrings by Chopard, Liv Tyler wore earrings by H. Stern and Julia Roberts modeled long diamond earrings by Cathy Waterman.
Right hand diamond rings were also popular with Johansson wearing a diamond cluster ring from De Beers worth more than $1 million, while Theron showed off a 4.68-carat ring by Chopard, Diane Lane wore a 22-carat classic emerald-cut diamond ring and Sandra Bullock had a seven-carat diamond heart-shaped ring by Lorraine Schwartz.
Apart from the usual necklaces, earrings, rings or bracelets, Sting wore an eight-carat diamond pin and seven-carat diamond Chopard cufflinks; "Whale Rider's" teen star Keisha Castle-Hughes wore a diamond whale hair clip.
Singer Gets A Lift From $2 Million Diamond Shoes At Oscars
She may be a country singer but Alison Krauss had plenty of soul at the 76th Academy Awards when she sang Oscar-nominated songs 'Scarlet Tide' and 'You Will Be My Ain True Love' from the movie 'Cold Mountain' wearing a $2 million pair of diamond-adorned shoes created by designer Stuart Weitzman.The stiletto sandal on a 4 1/2-inch invisible heel is covered with more than 500 dazzling diamonds set in platinum giving the illusion that there is no shoe, just diamonds twinkling on the foot.
Nestled among the clear classic diamonds is an extraordinarily rare colored diamond that is amaretto in color and weighs approximately 5 carats, which was specially cut and polished for the shoes.
With the rare colored diamond valued at well over $1 million and the shoes adorned with an additional 55 carats of clear diamonds, the shoes are likely to sell for $2 million or more.
Lowell Kwiat, of Kwiat Diamonds, which provided the gems for the special shoes, said his family's firm had never seen a diamond of the color of the amaretto diamond in nearly 100 years of making fine jewelry. "I myself have seen more than a million diamonds, but nothing that looks like this," Kwiat said.
Some source material reprinted with permission from IDEX Magazine (http://www.idexonline.com/).
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