Couture from Vionnet, Dior and jewelry from Cartier and Van Cleef gave authenticity to the film about a controversial royal couple, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor By Elizabeth Snead Phillips re ...

“Kenneth Jay Lane is a nonconformist who changed the perception of the establishment toward costume jewelry. He even got the Duchess of Windsor and a host of British royals to wear costume ...

The couple married the following year, and spent most of the rest of their lives in exile in France as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Costume jewellery is jewellery manufactured as ornamentation ...

His path to success was swift, thanks in part to fashion editor Jo Hughes, who showed his work to Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor ... tapped him to handle the jewelry for the Metropolitan ...