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...furor over President Putin's recent acquisition of a unique piece of jewelry. At the Russian president's reception for American tycoons, Robert Kraft, the owner of this year's Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots, showed Putin his 2005 Super Bowl ring. It's a 14-karat, four ounces white-gold piece, studded with 124 diamonds arranged to form the team's logo and the words "World Champions." A lesser ring from a previous Super Bowl sold for $49,000 last year. "Kraft," writes Russia's business daily Kommersant, "shoved something shyly into Putin's hand ... Putin tried...
...original 1886 design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois of Reims, France, the 15-ft. flame is gilded with 24-karat gold leaf. During the ceremony, Regional National Park Director Herbert Cables said that the new torch would "shine more brightly than ever." Indeed, it shall. New lights will illuminate the flame when President Reagan kicks off the statue's 100th birthday celebration on July...
HONOLULU Gucci's Velluto--made of velvet laced with 24-karat gold and adorned with pearl-and-crystal dragon heads--can be had for $4,800 at the Ala Moana Center...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.) No order was too extravagant: Cartier created 27 tiaras for people attending the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. King Farouk of Egypt had solid-gold toothpicks specially made, the family of King Edward VII ordered jeweled can openers, and W.K. Vanderbilt requested 18-karat-gold yo-yos. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt filled a cake with Cartier jewels as a birthday gift for the Prince of Wales. And a challenge from a gemstone-laden maharaja inspired the elaborate mixes known as Tutti Frutti...
When the lights went down after John Galliano's 18-karat Christian Dior haute couture show in Paris, a pack of paparazzi nearly trampled Bernard Arnault, chairman of Dior's owner LVMH, (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton), as they lunged for Sarah Jessica Parker. "Please, please tell Mr. Galliano I am so sorry, but I can't go backstage," she said as they snapped away. Parker was too busy putting on her own fashion show across town at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, where she was filming the final episode of Sex and the City...