Kim’s love for style historical past wants no introduction. (courtesy: kimkardashian)
London:
American actuality tv star and social media colossus Kim Kardashian has bought the Attallah Cross, the amethyst and diamond pendant famously worn on a number of events by Princess Diana, in accordance with the public sale home Sotheby’s. The piece, made within the Twenties by the British jeweller Garrard, bought for 163,800 kilos ($202,300) through the public sale home’s “Royal and Noble” sale in London on Wednesday. The pendant – which Diana notably wore to a 1987 charity gala – fetched greater than twice the pre-auction minimal estimate, with Sotheby’s confirming it was purchased by a consultant on behalf of Kardashian.
“Jewelry owned or worn by the late Princess Diana very not often comes on to the market, particularly a bit such because the Attallah Cross, which is so vibrant, daring and distinctive,” Sotheby’s Kristian Spofforth stated earlier than the sale.
“To some extent, this uncommon pendant is symbolic of the princess’s rising self-assurance in her sartorial and jewelry selections, at that specific second in her life.”
The pendant is not going to be the primary piece of style historical past to cross paths with Kim Kardashian.
Final 12 months, the 42-year-old made headlines for attending the Met Gala within the very costume worn by Marilyn Monroe when she serenaded then-president John F Kennedy on his birthday in 1962.
Kardashian was initially accused of getting broken the display legend’s robe, however Los Angeles-based museum Ripley’s Consider It or Not!, which owns the piece, denied the allegations.
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