cartier panther clip brooch 1949
If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, Cartier in the twentieth century kept some fabulous company. Pieces owned by the likes of Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, and Gloria Swanson go on view starting this Saturday in a dazzling new show at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the French jeweler’s first American boutique, which opened on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in 1909.
—Kimberly Straub For Vogue
Elizabeth Taylor wearing the Cartier ruby necklace 1951, in 1958
Gloria swason, wearing cartier bracelets circa 1930
Cartier Tiger Clip brooch 1957
cartier tutti frutti necklace
Photoes by Edward Owen