Modern Jewelry Trends

Jewelry and Hollywood are made for each other. So to coincide with its exhibit of Wiener Werkstatte jewelry, The Neue Galerie on Fifth Avenue in New York is hosting a free “Jewelry on Screen” film festival. Although a the festival is half over, a lot of good movies are coming up in the next few weeks. Any jewelry film festival is definitely required to show “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” See it again on May 23 and 30. Although Audrey Hepburn claims in the film that it’s tacky to wear diamonds if you’re under 40, she does show how to wear a fashionably long strand of pearls. In “Topkapi,” from 1964, Melina Mercouri covets the emerald dagger from the palace in Istanbul, which has one of the world’s most amazing collections of jewels. You can follow the caper on June 6 or 13. “The Affair of the Necklace,” a 2001 movie starring Hilary Swank playing on June 20 and 27, follows the intrigue surrounding the lavish 647 diamond necklace of Marie Antoinette that helped spark the French revolution.

What movies would you add to create the ultimate jewelry film festival? “To Catch a Thief” with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly is a definite yes. “Romancing the Stone”? “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”? “Titanic”? Pretty obvious. Let me also nominate Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” about two brothers who rob their parent’s jewelry store. While short on glamour, it’s an actor’s showcase for stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. And, yes, the festival would have to include “Blood Diamond” too, don’t you think?

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