Elizabeth Taylor, through the filming of the film “The V.I.P.s” in London, 1963. She wears a convertible brooch-pendant in platinum with emerald and diamonds, 1958, from the Bvlgari Heritage Assortment, previously within the assortment of Elizabeth Taylor.Photograph: Grazia Neri
Cleopatra
The story started in 1962, when Taylor arrived in Rome to movie Cleopatra—the costliest film ever tried, and the one that will change each her life and Bulgari’s without end. Between scenes at Cinecittà Studios, she slipped into the maison’s By way of Condotti boutique. “Undeniably one of many largest benefits to filming Cleopatra in Rome was Bulgari’s store,” she later wrote.
There, then husband Eddie Fisher offered her with a lavish en tremblant brooch of emeralds and diamonds and a pair of pendant earrings—his extravagant, if futile, try to carry her consideration. Across the similar interval, she acquired a Serpenti Tubogas watch, doubtless from Fisher, whose coiled bracelet wrapped the wrist like an asp. It was photographed off-set, gleaming in opposition to her violet eyes and Cleopatra’s eyeliner.
