100th Anniversary of Cartier's first boutique in America!

cartier panther clip brooch 1949

If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, Cartier in the twentieth century kept some fabulous company. Pieces owned by the likes of Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, and Gloria Swanson go on view starting this Saturday in a dazzling new show at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the French jeweler’s first American boutique, which opened on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in 1909.

—Kimberly Straub For Vogue

Elizabeth Taylor wearing the Cartier ruby necklace 1951, in 1958

Gloria swason, wearing cartier bracelets circa 1930

Cartier Tiger Clip brooch 1957

cartier tutti frutti necklace

Photoes by Edward Owen