Perhaps it is precisely because the jewels in the film are too bright that the Chinese name of the film has been translated into bling except Breakfast at Tiffany's. The film tells the story of Holly Golay, a small town girl played by Hepburn, who is bent on the life of the upper class, and makes her pursue fame and fortune all day long and become a social butterfly among many handsome tycoons and political celebrities. But in the end, Holly Gray understood the true meaning of love, fell in love with ordinary Paul, and had real happiness. It looks like the story of "Mary Sue", but it has become one of the most popular films of Hepburn. For the filming of this film, Tiffany set aside a day in the store to provide a venue for the play.
In the movie, every set of Hepburn's styles will be haunted by gorgeous jewels, but among these jewels, the most striking thing is Hepburn's yellow diamond ribbon necklace in the movie poster. The main stone of this necklace is today's protagonist-Tiffany diamond.
Although Hepburn is widely known for wearing this necklace, she didn't really wear it in the movie, but wore a real yellow diamond necklace in the poster. So far, this diamond has only been worn by three women, one is the famous lady Mary White House. Mary white House), one is Hepburn and the other is Lady Gaga-interestingly, every time it appears on them, this yellow diamond is presented in a completely different posture.
1877, this stone was born in Kimberly diamond mine in South Africa, a famous diamond mine family. Many famous diamonds were mined in this mine. When this yellow diamond was first discovered, the original stone weighed 287.42 carats.
1878, the founder of Tiffany, Charles Lewis Tiffany, successfully purchased this yellow diamond at the price of 18000 USD through various channels. This price may not be expensive at present, but it has been 100 years since 1878, and the price has increased many times. You can see how expensive this yellow diamond is when you think about it.
Cutting and grinding the right shape is the first step to make this yellow diamond that you bought at a high price shine. After Tiffany's senior craftsmen spent a year thinking about its cutting method, in the end, Tiffany did not hesitate to sacrifice more than half the carat weight of this yellow diamond for cutting, in order to show the greatest light of this yellow diamond.
When cutting and polishing this yellow diamond, Dr. George Queens, Tiffany's chief gemologist, personally supervised it. He cut 82 pieces by hand, and finally showed it as a beautiful pillow-shaped yellow diamond of 128.54 carats, shining in Tiffany's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York.
After cutting and polishing, it is its design. In order to show its beauty to the greatest extent, Tiffany has designed it four times from cutting and polishing to today, and each design has brought different appreciation feelings to this yellow diamond.
The first time: a glimpse 1957
This yellow diamond was first set in this 1957 diamond necklace. Celebrity Mary white House wore this necklace at the ball held by Tiffany in Newport, Rhode Island in 1957, which was the first time Tiffany wore a yellow diamond.
The second time: 196 1 became famous.
The second design comes from Tiffany's talented designer Jean Schlumberger. But two of the four styles of this yellow diamond were made by his genius. Hepburn wore this necklace on the poster of 196 1 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, which amazed the world.
The third time: 1995 became a classic.
When the legendary yellow diamond appeared for the third time, it became a wonderful "bird on the stone" brooch: on the top of the huge yellow diamond, a diamond bird stopped on it, forming a strong contrast between the huge and the small. This work was also created by Jean Schlumberger and specially designed for the retrospective exhibition of 1995 Paris Museum of Decorative Arts. This design also makes the shape of "bird on the stone" a classic design of Tiffany, and many brooches inlaid with giant gems and birds are derived.
Fourth time:175th Anniversary Celebration 20 12.
20 12 is the 75th anniversary of the birth of Tiffany brand/kloc-0. To commemorate and celebrate Tiffany's redesign of Tiffany diamonds, this reset is also a huge project, which took more than one year. This necklace * * * is set with white diamonds (20 Lucida diamonds and 58 brilliant cut diamonds), with a total weight of over 65,438+020 carats, and even the base is made of 4,865,438+0 shiny diamonds. In 20 13, this redesigned legendary yellow diamond visited China for the first time.
Now this legendary yellow diamond is on display at Shanghai Fosun Art Center and is open to the public. This exhibition, entitled "Ingenious Art-Tiffany 180 Exhibition of Innovative Art and Diamonds", has collected more than 350 masterpieces of Tiffany, showing Tiffany's originality from six chapters: Tiffany's Blue Dream, Tiffany's Creative World, Tiffany's Blue Book High Jewelry, Tiffany's Love, Tiffany's Breakfast and Tiffany's Diamonds.
Among them, it not only tells the historical origin of Tiffany Blue, but also shows the evolution of Tiffany Blue Book jewelry over the years. What's more, this exhibition also moved the movie scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's to the scene, and told the wonderful details before and after the movie with the immersive exhibition hall. Of course, at the end of the exhibition, you will meet this legendary yellow diamond, just like a period and a starting point, which indicates the infinite possibilities of this yellow diamond in the future.
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