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Loans for Ladies. Greatest of all the Belle Époque jewelers, and Bernhardt's longtime favorite, was René Lalique, who, like today's haut couturiers, designed jewels to suit the individual's personality. While working for Chez de Stape, then Paris' leading fashion jeweler, Lalique began experimenting with enamels, transforming glass with oxides in his own kitchen. In mounting stones, he turned from semiprecious tortoise shell to ordinary horn because he found the color of tortoise too irregular. The innovation was an immediate success; overnight, horn became a luxury in Paris...
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