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 As an accessory
to make women more attractive, it is the extraordinary exclusive jewelry to symbolize
the high status or belonging to the royal family. Throughout many centuries the
best jewelers were given the challenge to make diadems for beautiful ladies of
royal families and those from high society. Nevertheless, this luxury jewel has
not outdated with the monarchy reigning period. On the top of it, tiaras are
still demanded by women and fashion designers of our times.
History of
tiaras
Tiara is
historically connected with the crown. The myths of Ancient Greece and RomePersia
is believed to be the motherland to tiaras. And the term «tiara» comes from
there to stand for the royal headwear as a cone incrusted with precious stones. depict the Gods,
emperors and other distinguishing persons wearing metal hair bands, golden laurel
wreaths and tiaras. Ancient
Afterwards,
a tiara came to symbolize the monarch authority, as well as the absolute
attribute with the marriage and enthroning ceremonies. So, tiaras acquired more
popularity to the late XVII century when the headwear was made luxury and
exclusive with inclusion of precious stones and metals. Tiaras of that period
were made with the special technique when gems and stones were placed to define
the name or initials of the wearer. The epoch of Napoleon’s reign is the peak
of flourishing for luxury tiaras and diadems. New jewelers appeared that
period, for example, Chaumet, and plenty of luxury works which are today kept
in museums and private collections around the world. Tiara is the essential
attribute of persons from high society.
Today
members of royal families still reveal the tendency to wear tiaras for various
solemn ceremonies. And jewelers still make jewelry accessories by custom more
often than earlier. Tiaras with less expensive metals and stones are employed
at various beauty contests and for wedding events.
Tiaras for Queens
Elizabeth II,
the Queen of England, usually appears at royal functions wearing a tiara that belonged
to the Russian Princess Maria Pavlovna. In 1890 Maria Pavlovna ordered jewelry to
the court jewelers made from numerous diamonds and large pearl bids known as
the Vladimir Tiara. There is the interesting fact that Elizabeth II sometimes
appears at events wearing the same tiara with the facetted emeralds instead of
pearls. Are there two different tiaras and no Vladmir Tiara is there available?
It was lately revealed that during the times of Bolshevist Revolution Maria
Pavlovna immigrated to France
and after she died the Tiara was sold to Maria, the Queen, in 1921 who was
famous for her designer solutions and tendencies. And she requested the tiara
to be improved by jewelers of Garrard House. The pearl drops can be removed and
fifteen amazing emerald pendants from the Cambridge Emerald Collection were
placed instead. Thus, the great Vladimir Tiara was the perfect accessory to
match any set of jewelry.
Tiara against
incurable disease
Versace House
is famous to present the most popular tiara in the world made from the high
purity yellow gold and incrusted with 1200 diamonds with the brand logo made in
white metal. The jewelry made by Gianni Versace for the Atelier Collection was
specially designed for women involved in the world AIDS problem. Time and again
the accessory was demonstrated by celebrities and models in advertisement
campaigns of the Company and in 1995 the jewel was awarded De Beers Diamonds
Award. Later on, the tiara was put to auction to go for some million dollars
for the charity purposes.
Famous tiara manufacturers
The history
of the famous French brand Chaumet dates back to the year 1870 to be inseparably
related to tiaras. Moreover, tiara is the most recognizable symbol of thecompany. Joseph Chaumet who headed the Company in the
late XIX and early XX centuries was acknowledged to be the master of tiaras. He
created gorgeous and elegant headwear. His legendary Bourbon-Parme tiara made
in 1919 symbolizes the sun rising in the skyline of the Japanese Sea.
The Chaumet Company has over 1500 tiaras available made in classic style with
plenty of diamonds, emeralds and pearls, laced weaved works of art from noble
metal and eastern precious gems.
The latest collections
by Chaumet offer various tiaras unlike other reputed jewelry houses that
present tiaras just by custom. Attrape-moi... Si tu m'ames, the latest work by Chaumet, is
distinguished against other works. The theme of the collection is symbols: a round
laced cobweb with the knight-spider and bee-bugs that are entangled in love. The
material used in the yellow gold at 198 carats incrusted with white diamonds as
the dew drops, citrines of intensive yellow color, pink tourmalines and fiery opals.
Cartier,
the other acknowledged tiara manufacturer is famous for their unique and
extraordinary design of jewelry. The collection by Cartier a-la Art-Deco presents
six tiaras made within 1913-1914 years to show off with the exclusive technical
merit when the gracious platinum matched with the nielloed steel and
pear-shaped facetted diamonds. In 1920 the jewelry collections revealed the
influence of Eastern and Asian culture to present tiaras resembling head
accessories of Egyptian Empresses, with the motley paints of India and light
Chinese motifs when crystal and nephritis were used along with diamonds. Tiaras
a-la Cartier tutti-frutti recall the abundance of natural colors embodied in
the perfect gems and stones gathered on the thin headwear. The jewels included
big diamonds of fancy color, emerald, carving and sapphires of exclusive
faceting typical to jewelry of Indian beautiful women.
The Van
Cleef & Arpels Jewelry house made a special tiara to the coronation
ceremony of the legendary actress Grace Kelly and Prince of Monaco from the
platinum with insertions of big pear-shaped diamonds and plenty of other finer
ones. This jewelry was called Grace Kelly and was made to transform it from the
tiara to the lavish necklace.
Tiara is
the luxury jewelry for members of royal family and other beautiful women.
However, a thin lace of pearls, finer diamonds or motley gems placed on a
delicate headwear can be a perfect and luxury decorative element for lots of
functions to cheer a woman and raise positive emotions with others.
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