With the most exquisite hospitality, and the ultramodern set up on the top floor of her Geneva store, Caroline Scheufele, superchic in her sage satin blouse and encrusted lace leggings highlighted by a G-Color diamonds sautoir, celebrated a tribute to Diana through impressive designs of necklaces and earrings.
The collection in honor of the Princess of Wales counts a number of pearls chokers with sapphires or three-lined cushion shaped diamonds. Everybody will remember Lady D's love for blue : all shades of blue for all kind of official outfits, and royal blue for most of her jewelry parures and daily gems. From the unforgettable engagement ring, a sapphire solitaire set with diamonds we all have fallen for, to the thick pearl chocker she wore with the Edelstein black velvet gown dancing with Travolta at the White House, to the blue earring drops and pendants she would mix and match in different combinations with classic Ralph Lauren blazers or jeans&Tod's, BLUE is definitively her color. She has been inspiring millions of fans,either through simple beige cotton trousers styled with simple white shirts and worn during her humanitarian missions, or through a very iconic choice of plain colors simple silk evening dresses. Less is more, the simplest the shape, the most elegant she looked. Just because either you have it - class and elegance- either you don't. The French call it allure. No doubt when she walked into any ballroom and restaurant, or participated any procession and parade, with or without the Royal Family, the crowd was paralyzed, respectful and in total admiration at once. An other story when we think she has been capable to break protocols and exploit the press at her own advantage, or to use her weaknesses or , let's say, eating disorders and lack of love to gain the crowds' pity. No wonder why she has conquered the sympathy of the whole world playing the broken hearted wife in front of the world, giving an interview on BBC she should have never given. I must say I've always liked her at any stage, and I felt her will to "democratize" her role in the Royal Family showing us she WAS (or desperately needed to be) a woman like us, a mother like us and somebody with a great heart and a deep attention to the others, was just her way to get closer to everyone. Shame this template does not fit at all an aristocratic frame: her glow will always be remembered and admired, her compassion will be missed, but tears still come to my eyes when I think she has gone when bitterness was getting too strong and her last actions, trips and declarations quite controversial.
To me she remains the Princess of Hearts, the mother of two wonderful boys and a myth who will never die. Elton John expresses this concept with very simple words : Candle in the wind remains one of the fastest single ever sold out in the UK's music history, the melody corresponds so much to the Princess' profile. Just a few lines to ask myself who thought this poor Naomi Watts could ever been taken into consideration to play the role of the most famous woman on earth...judgements on the fact she could be too old and wrinkled, or not attractive enough aside, she has not been able to catch any of Diana's characteristics, not even one.
Simplicity has fallen into cheap, elegance has turned into the ordinary, beauty into mediocrity, style into averageness and charisma into idiocy and levity. How sad. It was not about finding someone who could have barely looked like Her, but who could have emphasized her strengths and values through deep interpretation which many other actresses could have performed. Diana's life has always been known to be swinging between high and lows- very high and very low- and that is the essence of her deep soul. Definitively not what this new release has spread. Personally, I prefer to remember the black and white portraits of her with her kids, on the shots of Bazaar and Vogue's covers, impeccably taken by John Swannell, and rigorously in black and white to immortalize an icon that will always be remembered through the decades.
