It just don't seem right.
Elizabeth Taylor's multiple husbands, most notably Richard Burton, showered her with fabulous jewels -- huge diamonds, emeralds, etc. -- in elaborate settings of rings and necklaces. Only a fabled beauty with Liz's style and grace could wear such huge, expensive baubles without looking cheapened by the excessive bling. She could pull it off and look fabulous, even as an old lady in a wheelchair.
Now that the jewels have been auctioned off by her estate, mere mortals are scarfing them up and wearing them -- and looking cheap in the process. It seems sacrilegious somehow.
Jill Zarin (never heard of her) of "Real Housewives of New York" was seen wearing one of Liz's rings. And the ubiquitous, manipulative, offensively shallow Kim Kardashian now owns another. Ughhh. Cheap. Tacky.
Elizabeth Taylor's style is not transferable with the price of a ring, even you pay millions for it.
She lived large and had her flaws, for sure. But she was real and had a heart of gold (an early friend of gay rights and major force in HIV research fund-raising) and was loyal to her friends (Rock Hudson, Montgomery Cliff, Michael Jackson).
For me, she will forever be the darling pre-teen of the 1944 "National Velvet" and the charming teen of the 1949 "Little Women;" the stunningly beautiful young lady of the 1951 "A Place in the Sun;" and the shrewish broad of the 1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
These cheap publicity hounds have no right to wear her jewels. That's what I think.
Ralph
Now that the jewels have been auctioned off by her estate, mere mortals are scarfing them up and wearing them -- and looking cheap in the process. It seems sacrilegious somehow.
Jill Zarin (never heard of her) of "Real Housewives of New York" was seen wearing one of Liz's rings. And the ubiquitous, manipulative, offensively shallow Kim Kardashian now owns another. Ughhh. Cheap. Tacky.
Elizabeth Taylor's style is not transferable with the price of a ring, even you pay millions for it.
She lived large and had her flaws, for sure. But she was real and had a heart of gold (an early friend of gay rights and major force in HIV research fund-raising) and was loyal to her friends (Rock Hudson, Montgomery Cliff, Michael Jackson).
For me, she will forever be the darling pre-teen of the 1944 "National Velvet" and the charming teen of the 1949 "Little Women;" the stunningly beautiful young lady of the 1951 "A Place in the Sun;" and the shrewish broad of the 1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
These cheap publicity hounds have no right to wear her jewels. That's what I think.
Ralph
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