Going into a department store and smelling every fragrance or simply buying the most expensive bottle online isn't the best way to go about it.įortunately, you don't need to be an aroma specialist to find a fragrance you or someone you're gifting to will love. However, finding the right cologne can be a tall task if you don't know what you like or you're shopping for someone else. “Collectors are definitely interested the assistant of one sent an email, requesting more photos.After routinely grooming and using your favorite body washes and lotions, cologne is the final step to smelling great. market, and I’ve gotten a lot of requests,” Shalini says. “The one in India, we may want to keep it for exhibition purposes,” Samir says.Ĭlients, however, may have a different idea in mind.
The two necklaces will sell for $80,000 each and currently reside half a world away from each other, with one at the Sanjay Kasliwal boutique on Madison Avenue, and the other at Gem Palace in Jaipur.
While the two necklaces look similar, they differ in their composition, with one totaling 2,628 carats of rubies, emeralds, pearls and diamonds, and the other totaling 3,242 carats (other than total carats, the split between rubies and emeralds is the key variance). Marella would wear them with formal dresses, or more casually with a shirt, and we wanted that same feeling with these.” “But we kept them long enough so you could still double them, as she liked to do. “The shorter length felt more modern,” she notes.
Requiring roughly five months each to craft in Gem Palace’s workshop, both pieces are shorter than Marella’s necklace, and that’s by design, Shalini says. Samir and Shalini have christened them “the Last Swan Necklaces,” a name inspired by Truman Capote’s affectionate term for his elegant coterie of female friends, a group of “swans” that in addition to Marella included Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Lee Radziwill, Gloria Guinness and C.Z. Gem Palace Necklace Inspired by Marella AgnelliĪlmost a year after that box of precious beads was found, the Kasliwal siblings have unveiled their tribute to Marella Agnelli: a pair of necklaces that take their cue from the original design. Whether Marella loved the necklace because of its origins, its multitude of gemstones, or because it had been a spontaneous gift from her husband, she indeed wore it often: on vacation with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to Malcolm Forbes’s 70 th birthday party in Morocco in 1989, at a New Yorker event in 1994, where she was photographed alongside Oscar de la Renta and to a variety of galas and fundraisers.
That belt fell into the latter category, a decision helped by the fact that the Agnellis were valued Gem Palace clients, who would stop in Jaipur to see Samir’s grandfather, Lakshmi Kumar Kasliwal, and later his father, Sanjay Kasliwal, whenever the jet-setting couple visited India. “The belt had been made by my family, and at one point my grandfather bought it back-he had been buying some pieces to save them for a Gem Palace museum, while with others he thought about redesigning them.” “Gianni Agnelli was visiting my grandfather one day in 1955, and he saw the beads and asked whether some of them could be strung into a necklace for his wife,” explains Samir Kasliwal, partner, creative director and eighth-generation family member of the Jaipur-based Gem Palace.
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