The Patiala necklace and a 152-carat sapphire: Inside the Cartier exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum
There is a scene in the 1958 Gigi Musical Technicolor comedy where Aunt Alicia travels through her young niece through what looks less like a jewelry box and more like a lesson. “A topaz? Among my jewelry? Are you crazy? She exclaims, scandalized, when Gigi badly identifies a yellow diamond. She teaches him the cuts…
