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Diamond Dressing
Posted by admin | Posted in Jewelry Advice, Weird Diamond News | Posted on 30-03-2009
Nightingale of Kuala Lumpur
Just in time for the wedding season: Designer Faisol Abdullah is in the process of creating the ultimate dream diamond dress. The dress, festooned with 751 diamonds, is estimated to be worth an eye-popping $30 million! It has been named “Nightingale of Kuala Lumpur”. Highlighting the taffeta and silk creation, is a humongous 70 carat pear-shaped diamond, perched “smack dab in the middle” of the gown’s bodice. Further adding to the drama, is a voluminous diamond sprinkled train. The perfect wedding dress! (If only there were a diamond necklace and tiara to match)
Diamonds for the gown were furnished by the famed house of Mouawad. Although, under normal circumstances, it would take several months to obtain diamonds in this quantity and of this quality, Mr. Mouawad just happened to have had plenty of them stored hither and thither in various storehouses; thus enabling quick and easy access.
At the time of this writing, designer Abdullah is still said to be putting the finishing touches on his creation. Commissioned by Nancy Yeoh, CEO of STYLO, the diamond studded dress is scheduled to make its debut and headline in Malaysia, at the STYLO fashion festival; beginning sometime in April. Ms. Yeoh is anticipating that it will appeal to, and be worn by, some of the most prestigious personages of this planet. To ease any potential buyer’s guilty conscience, it sure helps to know that five percent of the sale price has been earmarked to go to a specific charity.
So far, a buyer has not yet been found for this fabulous (but frivolous) confection. Since it can be universally agreed upon that the price is “out of this world”, Ms. Yeho may want to extend her marketing efforts to include inhabitants possibly existing on any of the other eight planets in the solar system. That way, she may have at least a remote chance of making a speedier sale. And so we ask: Any takers?
