Remember Madonna’s look for “Like a Virgin”? Well, it’s back.
Even now, 25 years after her death, Diana may still be the alpha influencer. An amethyst and diamond pendant that the Princess of Wales wore repeatedly in the late 1980s — on loan from Naim Attallah, group chief executive of Asprey at the time — was hotly contested at a Sotheby’s London sale in January.
It sold for 163,800 pounds (or $197,453 at the time), potentially the highest price ever realized for jewelry in the shape of a cross, according to Kristian Spofforth, head of jewelry for Sotheby’s London. “As far as I’m aware — and I’ve done some digging — I
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