2 weeks Ago By Eleanor Steafel and Kathryn Younger
Kim Kardashian has a penchant for wearing items belonging to deceased stars, including Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe – and now Princess Diana. For a woman with the name and the funds to be able to commission any designer she likes, Kim Kardashian has a strange and enduring penchant for wearing niche pieces worn by deceased famous people. She has outbid collectors at auctions of clothing and jewellery worn by Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Elvis, and once wore Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr President” dress to the Met Gala.
Her latest trinket? A large amethyst cross once worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, which Kardashian acquired in 2022 but has only just worn in public, breaking it out for her appearance at Saturday night’s LACMA Art+Film gala in Los Angeles. Once you have seen the Attallah cross on Kim, it’s rather hard to imagine it on the late princess. It would be fair to say they styled it somewhat differently.
When Princess Diana wore it to a charity gala in London in 1987, she paired it with a black and burgundy Catherine Walker dress with a high, Elizabethan-style neck ruff. The gold, silver, amethyst and diamond pendant hung on a long string of pearls. The whole effect was very Catherine of Aragon meets Madonna.
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