Elizabeth Taylor did not remove her Love bracelet from Richard Burton for a sitting with photographer Cecil Beaton when she was covered in diamond jewelry and formally dressed for the Rothschild’s 1971 Proust themed costume ball.Īli MacGraw had on a Love bracelet from her husband producer Robert Evans throughout the 1972 action film The Getaway co-starring her next husband Steve McQueen. Many high-profile people took the concept of the jewel very seriously: once the Love bracelet was put on by your significant other it wasn’t supposed to be taken off.
Steve McQueen with Ali MacGraw who is wearing a Cartier Love bracelet on the 1972 set of The Getaway Photo: Entertainment Pictures The screwdriver in the Love bracelet is clearly a nod to bench tools.
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He was one of those rare jewelry talents that not only knew how to design imaginative pieces, he could also make them with his own two hands on the jeweler’s bench. The hardware that came with the Love bracelet reflected Cipullo’s experience.
A small vermeil screwdriver that accompanied the jewel was used to tighten the screw and fix the bracelet somewhat permanently on the recipient’s wrist. The idea occurred to him when he had insomnia, after a relationship ended, “It was 3 o’clock in the morning, I was feeling very sad and I wanted something nobody could take away from me.”Ĭipullo designed the narrow gold bracelet in the shape of an oval to fit snuggly around the wrist because he believed “Jewelry should be part of the body.” Bold screwhead motifs punctuated the surface and one worked as the clasp. “I was searching for a permanent symbol of love,” is how the charming 34-year-old blonde, blue eyed Italian with movie-star good looks described the inspiration at the time. Just as the name suggests, the origin of the eternally modern bracelet was romance. A 1970 ad for the Love bracelet shows it being worn by a man and a woman.
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