Kim Kardashian, her dizzying neckline and Lady Diana's incredible necklace turn heads in Los Angeles

It took four decades. For the first time since 1987, the Attallah Cross, a 5.25-carat amethyst and diamond necklace designed in the 1920s by Garrard, the Crown Jeweler, was worn in public. On November 2, during the Lacma Art + Film charity evening at the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Kim Kardashian displayed this cross which she acquired for the sum of 197,453 dollars (or approximately 182,450 euros) during the annual Royal sale and Noble at Sotheby's in London, January 18, 2023.

To enhance this pendant, the American businesswoman wore a long white Gucci dress which revealed a plunging neckline reaching up to the level of the navel. Kim Kardashian added other jewelry around her neck, a choker necklace and a pearl necklace. Finally, she completed the ensemble with a cape-style coat in an ivory hue, giving the evening outfit a vintage style. This famous cross is well known to the general public, since it was worn with a Catherine Walker dress by Lady Diana in October 1987, during a charity gala in favor of Birthright, a charitable organization working to protect human rights. of man during pregnancy and childbirth.

A lover of archive pieces

This is not the first time that the ex-partner of rapper Kanye West has acquired collector's items. In 2022, during the Met Gala, she wore the dress nude translucent decorated with more than 6,000 crystals having been made famous by Marilyn Monroe in May 19, 1962, during a Democratic Party fundraiser at Madison Square Garden in New York, during which President John F. Kennedy celebrated his 45th birthday . The actress then whispered “Happy birthday Mister President” making her dress make history. To fit into this legendary piece made by costume designer Jean-Louis Berthault, Kim Kardashian had lost 7 kilos, attracting the wrath of the Internet.

Three years earlier, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West had given their daughter North West a velvet jacket from the late Michael Jackson. They had found this piece at Julien’s Auctions. The creator of the brand Skims had also already purchased, in 2017, the watch Tank vintage of Cartier by Jacqueline Kennedy for the modest sum of $379,500, according to the WMagazine . The Attallah cross is therefore just one more piece which aims to complete an already well-stocked fashion collection.