February 23rd, 2008 → 11:52 pm @ Jordan McAuley // No Comments
The Oscars are this Sunday, and what better to deck out this year’s top starlets than a string of million-dollar diamonds?
Here are some statistics from the latest issue of Fortune*:
* 50,000 carats of diamonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars were lent out for the Oscars last year. In the weeks prior to the show, each jeweler invites celebrity stylists to pick from a traveling treasure chest of rare pieces.
* $200,000 in sales was what Harry Winston generated after last year’s Oscars when it sold two Diamond Carpet bracelets, worn by The Last King of Scotland star Gillian Anderson, for $100,000 each. Trends often start at the Oscars: Three-diamond rings and necklaces, big in 1999, were a $3.7 billion category by 2006.
* $157 million was what Toronto-based mining company Aber Diamond paid to assume control of Harry Winston in 2006.
* “Oscar Gems,” Fortune, March 3, 2008
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