Diamond jewellery has been an it item for as long as any of us can remember. The ‘big girl’, grown-up jewellery we would discover and consequently lust over in our mother’s jewellery boxes, all the while patiently wondering and waiting until it was our time to own such a piece. Wearing the sparkling quality of a diamond has always had big appeal (as immortalised in the film, How To Loose A Guy In Ten Days) with the catch phrase ‘frost yourself ”. Marilyn Monroe famously sang the words ‘Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend’, in the 1953 film, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, noting with great humour that ‘square-cut or pear-shaped, these rocks don’t loose their shape. Diamonds are a girls best friend.” She wasn’t wrong.
Historically diamonds became popular due to both their cultural significance and reputation as a valuable commodity – historical accounts, particularly from India dating back some 3000 years ago illustrate this. Diamonds were first used in 1047 in a Hungarian Queen’s crown and the first diamond ring given to Mary Burgundy in 1477. However, what really sparked the desire for diamonds was an advertising campaign commissioned by De Beers in 1947, where the infamous phrase ‘A Diamond is Forever’ was first coined. A diamond became treasure. The Greeks, who used the word ‘adamas’ to denote the indestructible quality of a diamond, believing that the diamond symbolised the extinguishable flame of love – a hard to beat combination of love and timelessness wrapped up in a single rock.
Diamonds really are a girl’s best friend. Try, if you can, to deny the alluring nature of a diamond. If you are buying for a very special reason, it is had to beat the sparkle and shine of a diamond. They commemorate, celebrate, symbolise and are said to be almost unbreakable. A nice piece of symbolism.
The hard part is choosing the diamond (for me, it is all about the Tiffany emerald-cut diamond ring) and you should do your research. With its hardness, rarity, beauty, and its connection to love and romance – they have become ‘the’ stone for modern day jewellery. Most woman own, or aspire to owning a pair of diamond earrings or diamond ring that signifies a special moment in their lifetime.
However, we aren’t all necessarily Elizabeth Taylor types, who are lavished with rocks, but I do believe we can all benefit from a little sparkle in our lives.
Enter the Polki diamond. These natural diamonds are not new, in fact they are one of the oldest forms of diamonds originating in southern India. They characteristically retain their rough form and have an unfaceted, rose-cut surface, meaning their look is softer look but they are no less of spectacle, with their beauty residing in their natural and unpolished look. These diamonds are it for those wanting to invest in their jewellery collection but who don’t have the equivalent of 20 years of a corporate salary bolstering their purchase. These diamonds make a smart and timeless first step into the world of high jewellery. A most attractive aspect of the Polki is that you can afford both in looks and cost to really go for it as in think in terms of sets, rather than just the one piece.
The spectacle of this diamond lies in how you wear it, not just its unique character – the old world, classy charm is somehow slightly Bohemian, which is modern in its irreverence and flare, not found in the mainstream diamond market. Think crisp white shirt, black cigarette pants, gold sandals, good hair, a pair of these diamond earrings, and a big diamond bracelet (maybe a manicure too!) – you are presenting a look that would have been as chic to a Bardot and Hepburn as it is to a whole host of glamorous women today.
These diamonds enable us all to be an owners of real diamonds, worthy of the jewellery box and the magic it generationally inspires.