Kathy Ireland & Elizabeth Taylor Partner Up
Kathy IrelandIreland to Design Jewelry for TaylorKathy Ireland and Elizabeth Taylor are going into business together. House of Taylor Jewelry will partner with Kathy Ireland Worldwide, the design and marketing firm with more than one billion dollars in annual retail sales, to bring fashion and bridal collections to market. Ireland’s jewelry will range from less than $200 to $2500 and will be based on her “Style Guides.”
Ireland will serve as keynote speaker at the JCK Jewelry Show, this June in Las Vegas. Her topic will communicate the power of strategic partnerships and the need for branding at retail. House of Taylor Jewelry will premiere at Luxury by JCK, continuing on at JCK Las Vegas and JA New York.
One of Taylor’s greatest passions is jewelry, and she has amassed one of the world's foremost collections. By the time she was in her thirties, Elizabeth Taylor had already owned an outstanding set of Burmese rubies and diamonds from Cartier, a fantastic emerald and diamond suite from Bulgari and the 33.19-carat Krupp diamond, a gift from Richard Burton. That ring was later eclipsed by a subsequent gift from Burton, when he bought a staggering 69.42-carat pear shaped diamond. Newly named the Taylor-Burton Diamond, it catapulted Elizabeth Taylor into that rarefied pantheon of great jewelry collectors. The Taylor-Burton Diamond, purchased from Cartier in 1969 for $1,100,000, was originally fashioned from a 240.80-carat rough diamond cut by Harry Winston. For her 40th birthday, Richard Burton presented Elizabeth Taylor with the Taj Mahal Diamond that has a history dating back to 1627. In 1969 Burton purchased the La Peregrina Pearl, which was originally discovered in the Gulf of Panama in the early 1500s, an heirloom passed through Spanish and English royal families.
