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Being a celebrity means that you are giving off an aura of a role model. What you wear, eat and the jewelry you have on can make millions of people change their look instantaneously. We love being on celebrity watch because then we can show you ways to get that look!

$1 Million of Chopard Jewels Stolen from Cannes

May 18, 2013 6:07 pm , Leave a Comment ,

In a wry twist of irony, a real-life jewelry heist took place shortly after the Cannes Music Festival last Thursday night. It happened during the world premiere of Sophia Coppola’s Bling Ring. The movie is about a group of celebrity-obsessed Los Angeles teens who track the whereabouts of celebs and break into their homes to steal jewelry. It is based on the true story of a real-life gang that targets the homes of celebs like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

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There were multiple media reports circulated that reported Chopard as the victim of a jewelry heist of over $1 million in stolen jewels. They reportedly were pieces intended to be loaned to celebrities for red carpet events. According to HollywoodReporter.com, Cannes police said the value of the jewelry was “about $1.4 million.” USA Today stated that “robbers ripped the safe off the wall.”

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Lana Del Rey wears Chopard Emeralds at the Great Gatsby premiere

The robbery occurred at the Suite Novotel Cannes Centre before 5:00 am Friday morning. The posh hotel is located about 15 minutes from the French Riviera’s festival venue. Authorities suspect that it was an inside job and are questioning hotel employees. The jewels were taken from the room of an American female employee of Swiss bijoutier Chopard while she was out for the evening. The Chopard employee was slated to be interviewed later on Friday. Investigators are sifting through the city’s security camera footage in search of clues.

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Julianne Moore in Chopard

Choppard has been an official sponsor of the popular Cannes film festival for 15 years. One of the brand’s red-carpeted stores is located on the beachfront across from the festival venue.

Some of the celebrities photographed by the media this week during the festival were wearing the brand’s jewelry. They include Cara Delevigne, Julianne Moore, Solange Knowles, Lana Del Rey, Lynne Ramsay and Cindy Crawford.

Chopard recently debuted their fabulous 2013 Red Carpet Jewelry collection at Switzerland’s Baselworld fair.

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Tori Spelling Receives Anniversary Ring That Says “You Rock My World”

May 17, 2013 11:49 am , Leave a Comment ,

The number seven is Hollywood’s Tori Spelling’s lucky number. The daughter of prominent American film and television producer Aaron Spelling, actress Victoria Spelling recently celebrated her seventh anniversary to Canadian-American actor Dean McDermott. And speaking of lucky numbers, she also recently had a birthday, the Big Four-Oh.

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Each year since their made-in-heaven marriage, Hubby Dean has presented Tori with a ring as a token of the renewal of their wedding vows. This year, he wanted something a little special. Hollywood marriages that survive to reach this milestone must survive “the seven-year itch.”

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The result was a very unique ring designed by Los Angeles jewelry designer Neil Lane. Lane told People magazine, “Their seventh year of marriage was really important to him. Dean wanted something unusual, different and something very special and celebratory.”

Lane contemplated many designs, having less than a week to come up with the perfect ring to mark the special seventh anniversary. He came up with the idea of a diamond sphere that spins. Set in 18K gold, the ring is comprised of 150 small rose-cut diamonds. It totals 3 carats.

“It spins around!” says Hollywood’s popular jewelry designer. “It’s a diamond ball, a little diamond world, and Tori can spin it on her finger.”

Lane says he wanted to create something sexy with a little of a Hollywood vintage look. The ring looks like a little diamond globe. Lane says that Dean loves Tori so much, and the ring makes the statement that “she rocks his world.”

Tori Spelling was born into the world of acting. Her first role was that of Donna Martin in Beverly Hills 90210. She starred in several made-for-TV movies. In 2009, she returned to star in the spin-off, 90210.

Dean McDermott has had many roles in both television and movies including the part of Constable Renfield Turnbull on the TV series Due South and the Kevin Costner film Open Range. The two star together in the reality TV shows, Tori & Dean: In Love, and Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

The couple has four children together.

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Gina Lollobrigida’s Jewels Earn $4.9 Million

May 16, 2013 12:21 pm , Leave a Comment ,

A while back, Gina Lollobridgida, the Italian actress and popular sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s era announced that she wanted to sell her expensive jewelry collection to donate to the cause of stem cell research.

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There has always been more to Miss Lollobridgida than just her sultry beauty. She was also a talented photo-journalist and sculptor. Now at age 85, she has decided to dedicate the rest of her career to her sculpting. Claiming that sculptors didn’t need all those jewels, she decided to give them to auction to benefit a charity close to her heart. “

Jewels From The Collection of Gina Lollobrigida

A pair of emerald and diamond pendent ear clips from Bulgari, 1964.

Sotheby’s recently sold the pieces in Miss Lollobridgida collection for $4.9 million. Among the items sold were a pair of fabulous diamond and natural pearl earrings. A spokesman for the auction house said that eight bidders vied for the earrings. They fetched 2.3 million from the highest bidder, setting a new auction record for an item of that nature.

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The record-breaking pearls

Also sold was a 74.53 carat fancy yellow diamond that once belonged to Ahmad Shah Qajar, former Shah of Persia. He was the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty. It sold for almost 3 million, or $40,061 per carat, breaking the auction record for price per carat.

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The 23 pieces in Miss Lollobridgida’s collection were the top draw among hundreds of items sold at Sotheby’s last auction. The jewelry included iconic Bulgari pieces from the 1950s and 1960s.

After the sale, Miss Lollobridgida declared, “Jewels are meant to give pleasure, and for many years I had enormous pleasure wearing mine. Selling my jewels to help raise awareness of stem cell therapy, which can cure so many illnesses, seems to me a wonderful use to which to put them.”

Miss Lollobridgida can now add philanthropist to her list of accomplishments.

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An Open Letter to Gretchen Rossi’s Engagement Ring

April 26, 2013 12:44 pm , 2 Comments ,

Readers, it’s time for some real talk. We’d like to chat about the Gretchen Rossi engagement ring pictures making the internet rounds, but first we want to make a few things clear.

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  1. Nothing but love for Gretchen proposing to him – we think it’s great when women pop the question and doubly great that Slade has a man-gagement ring (and it’s really cool too – black gold with black diamonds.)
  2. We’re based in Boca Raton. The bigger the diamond, the better. The bigger the fancy yellow, even better – hello, we collect 12 carat internally fancy yellows like no one’s business. It pains us and confuses us that we dislike this ring so much.
  3. Engagement rings are highly personal statements. One woman’s treasure is another’s travesty, so obviously our opinion means zilch to Gretchen, who we’re assuming loves her ring. All that being said, we can’t bring ourselves to ooh and ahh over this ring the way we do over the dozens we ogle each day.
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There’s just something so off about this ring. The 4 carat round brilliant fancy yellow diamond looks like it’s got an impeccable clarity grade, but that color is just so off. It looks either irradiated (which is fine, when it’s done right) or like a strange shade of vivid FY. Bringing it back to the positive, jeweler Danny Arik’s addition of a white diamond frame around the stone is lovely. It adds a nice finish to the stone, which would have looked strange in just a prong setting. We’re not nuts about the addition of the trapeze cut white diamonds on the side (we would have preferred just the round brilliant in the white diamond picture frame setting). But, in the O.C., more is more. No comment on her statement nail.

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Snoop Lion and MTV Partner for Anti-Gun Jewelry

April 22, 2013 6:00 am , Leave a Comment ,

Recently, many people have been quick to blame the glorification of violence through certain genres of music and videos. Musicians Snoop Lion, Drake and Cori B, are working to change that image. They have teamed up with MTV and Jewelry For a Cause to produce a video that speaks out against violence and the prevalence of powerful firearms. The very graphic video (watch with caution) depicts the horrors that guns and violence can create. The purpose of their mission is to help get illegal firearms off the street.

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Jewelry For a Cause is a specially designed line of jewelry designed by Jessica Mindich, a former lawyer and mother of two. Mundich is an activist whose company is devoted to promoting the idea that “purchasing jewelry could indeed be guilt-free, even an act of philanthropy.” She has created collections that have raised awareness of issues such as Alzheimer’s and lack of purified drinking water in underdeveloped countries.

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Jessica Mindich’s steel cuffs and bangles are made from re-purposed steel that comes from the Newark Police Department’s gun buyback program. They retail for between $150 and $300 with part of the proceeds from sales going back to the gun buyback program. Newark’s gun buyback program pays anonymous citizens $200 for each surrendered firearm, no questions asked.

The special MTV x Caliber bracelets, also fashioned from the steel of the guns, are $40 each and display the serial numbers of the guns they were made from. Proceeds from sales of the bracelets will ensure that the Newark Police Department’s gun buyback program can continue.

To further promote the bracelets, all the celebs at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards will be given one of the bracelets from the MTV x Caliber collection. MTV will in turn make a donation to the gun buyback program for every celebrity that attends the ceremony.

There is no doubt that the collaboration of MTV, Jessica Mindich and all of the celebrities involved will be ultimately responsible for saving many lives. In a released statement Snoop Lion announced that “This is such an important message we’re sharing. It’s a movement we want generations to recognize, embrace, and get behind. We’ve seen a lot of senseless acts of violence involving guns recently—too many have lost their lives, too many families have been destroyed. Like my friends at MTV, I want to be a part of the change that will help bring peace.”

Now you can be a part of the change. The unisex bracelets are from limited-edition collection and can be ordered from caliber.MTV.com.

MTV x Caliber Bracelet

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