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Here's a shock that changed how I look at Costume Jewellery forever. I love Costume Jewellery, shiny, blinking, glittering; it memorizes me. But for all the Jewel Qualities I admire and enjoy, I always had something in the back of my brain that associated Costume Jewellery with cheap. You probably know what I mean ... right?
Well, all that changed when I started researching Costume Jewellery Collections owned by Hollywood Stars.
Did you know that designers such as Swarovski, Christian Dior, Coco Chanel and Tiffany are just a few of the household names who have created costume jewellery pieces?
Take a look at this hand picked list of Hollywood Star Costume Jewellery collections.
 Ann Miller's extraordinary collection spans sixty years and includes some of the finest examples of costume jewelry produced in the 20th century. On June 4, 2005 the jewelry was offered for sale by Harrice Simons Miller, renowned costume jewelry expert, historian, author and dealer, at a live and online auction conducted by Julien's Auctions.
Legendary star of Hollywood and Broadway, actress, singer and dancer Ann Miller's career spanned fifty years. She starred in more than 40 Hollywood films, including "On the Town", "Easter Parade" and "Kiss Me Kate". She continued dancing into her 60s with the stage hits "Mame", "Follies" and "Sugar Babies" co-starring Mickey Rooney. She received numerous accolades ranging from the Best Legs Award to many Life Time Achievement Awards.
Ann Miller was a passionate collector of important costume jewelry until her death in 2004 at the age of 81.
Costume Jewellery items have sold for thousands of at auctions. In the press release issued by Julien’s Auctions the William DeLillo Egyptian-inspired collar and earrings, with simulated aquamarines in gilt metal, circa 1960s-70s were estimated at $10,000 to $12,500. All items presented were in the thousands of dollars mark.
WOW!
Paris Hilton is known to love the Tarine collection and this is how the Tarina Tarantino jewelry gained popularity.
Costume Jewellery has even found its’ way into the Hollywood star media report. On the 1st of July 2003 it was reported that $4,000 worth of costume jewellery was stolen from movie starts.
On July 1, $4,000 worth of costume jewelry worn by Sarandon in Miramax's Shall We Dance?, which also stars Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere, was reported stolen from the film's prop room on the Winnipeg, Manitoba, set, The New York Post reports.
If you look at close photos from Ami and Oscar Awards you see many actresses wearing costume designer jewellery.
Kenneth Jay Lane a famous American costume jewelry designer, has since the 1960s been known for creating unique pieces for Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Vreeland, and Audrey Hepburn. He is probably best-known for his three-strand faux pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush to her husband's inaugural ball. Talk about rich and famous!
More often, in every day life you will see costume jewllery being more popular than fine jewellery. It is not that fine jewellery is out of fashion in any way, but if anyone wants jewellery for everyday, every wear and every event, this will not be viable with fine jewellery. It doesn’t offer the designs of costume jewellery, the colors, nor the prices to collect and wear so many pieces of jewellery.
Costume jewellery was initially made to provide common people with jewellery when they couldn’t afford fine jewellery. Today costume jewellery is preferred by some of the most famous and wealthy celebrities.
With that said, today there are also pieces of costume jewellery designs that exceed the price of a regular fine jewellery piece. Isn’t that ironical in so many ways?
Costume jewellery has made its’ way into the homes and fashion of some of the most famous people.
The good news is that costume jewellery unlike fine jewellery is still by far the most affordable jewellery for anyone to buy.
If you look around the JewelleryForSale.co.za website, check the designs and the prices you will see and understand why costume jewellery is so easily affordable that every lady wants to own as many items as possible to have for every day wear. It is not outrageous or even exaggerated to find a lady that has a costume jewellery piece to wear for every day of the year.
And who knows if you keep your costume jewellery in good condition for long enough, one day you may find you have a collectable item worth more than a regular fine jewellery item.
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