When Blake Lively enters the Cafe Society in New York, a shimmering column of silver light in a lamé dress, even the spectacular dress could not distract the eye from the Van Cleef & Arpels diamond ring replica bow brooch shining out from her shoulder strap. And this was but the start of a Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery replica extravaganza that sparkled through the scenes of Woody Allen’s latest film.
Set in the mid-1930s, Cafe Society tells of a love triangle between doe-eyed secretary (Kristen Stewart) on her way up, her Hollywood movie-agent boss (Steve Carell) and a spurned young New Yorker (Jessie Eisenberg), who later becomes a leading light in New York’s shady nightclub world and husband to Veronica (Blake Lively). Like all Woody Allen films, the outfits – including Cheap van cleef & arpels vintage alhambra necklace 1 motif– are key to characterisation. With pitch-perfect detail, each scene rolls from one visual feast to another. From razor-sharp couture and diva sunglasses at Hollywood poolside parties to snappy day dresses in New York, Allen treats each scene as a carefully composed photo shoot, recreating a nostalgic, amber-set vision of another epoch.
Head wardrobe designer Suzy Benzinger remarks: “I couldn’t really design this film and not address Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry knockoff. In the 20th century, Van Cleef & Arpels was the epitome of style, luxury and glamour. If I was to portray Cafe Society properly I would have to use Van Cleef & Arpels. It is a vital part of history.”
As well as opening up its archives and climate-controlled couture vaults to Benzinger, Van Cleef & Arpels lent millions of pounds worth of jewels to the production. All the jewels are contemporary creations, but like every Van Cleef & Arpels Perlee bracelet replica, there is always a link to Madame Gabrielle’s seminal designs.
Gabrielle Van Cleef & Arpels’s interest in the changes taking place in society in the 1930s, from the role of women to nascent meritocracy, is reflected in the 2014 Cheap van cleef & arpels jewellery UK collection called Cafe Society. So it is fitting that these jewels should make their silver screen debut in the film of the same name. Likewise, let’s consider it a happy coincidence that leading lady Kristen Stewart also happens to be a Fake Van Cleef & Arpels Clover Long Necklace 20 motifs ambassador.
Jewellery highlights in the film are too great to list, but the most memorable jewellery moments include Kristen Stewart, the smouldering mogul’s wife, making an entrance in the 1932 collection diamond-feather headband with a matching pearl and diamond bracelet. Or the cluster of belles sipping champagne, each draped in Van Cleef & Arpels between the finger ring knockoff worth a king’s ransom, flanking a cigar-chomping, paunch-bellied, archetypal fat-cat mobster. Either way, these moments are pure cinematic magic, recreating a long-lost glamour epitomised in each diamond jewel.
Benzinger adds: “I was lucky that Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet replica also agreed to bring back pieces of jewellery inspired by ones Gabrielle Van Cleef & Arpels had designed at the time and that were so influential in the 1930s. The gorgeous simplicity of Van Cleef & Arpels’s dresses were canvasses to showcase her jewellery. The job was simple to me – put an elegant but simple dress on an actress, accessorise with a Cheap Van Cleef & Arpels alhambra earrings and I had instant glamour. That’s the genius of Replica Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry! This film would not be the same without the generous participation of Van Cleef & Arpels.”
And Van Cleef & Arpels, too, I am sure is proud of the stellar role its jewels have played in Hollywood – past, present and in that time warp known as film.