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y mother always described my father, Humphrey
Bogart, as very sentimental and romantic. He often
gave her beautiful jewelry, and almost every piece
was engraved with a sweet sentence or thought
and his initials or name. Romantic indeed!
Mother never lost her working-class roots,
even though she was able to aford gorgeous,
expensive things. She loved knowing the artists
who made the pieces she wore, and she felt par-
ticularly connected to a couple of private jewelers, like Amy Moss and Darlene
de Sedle. Amy is now a friend of mine—she makes exquisite, heavy pieces out of
22-karat gold, some with stones—and I have fond memories of her meeting my
mother and me at a hotel in Los Angeles to show us her latest designs. I bought
Mother a few of Amy’s pieces as gifts, and she wore them all the time.
If Mother wasn’t harried when she was getting ready to go out (which she
often was), she would talk to me about the clothes and jewelry she was wearing.
She adored pearls, particularly very big ones from Tahiti and the South Seas, and
wanted me to as well. They were magnifcent, without question, but a bit large
and showy for my taste. No matter—Mother looked fantastic in them. Whether
she was wearing pearls or an elegant brooch, along with her many rings, she had
a great sense of style and always looked beautiful. As told to Charlotte Cowles
More than 700 items from Lauren Bacall’s estate—including jewelry, art, and Humphrey
Bogart’s top hat—will be auctioned at Bonhams New York on March 31 and April 1WATCH LIST
Two Brooklynites (Adam
Driver and Amanda
Seyfried) introduce an
older couple (Ben Stiller
and Naomi Watts) to
hipsterdom in Noah
Baumbach’s While We’re
Young. And Ellie Kemper
stars in Tina Fey’s Netfix
comedy, Unbreakable
Kimmy Schmidt.BJÖRK’S
WORLD
A retrospective at
the Museum of
Modern Art in New
York celebrates
the Icelandic star’s
quirky body of work.LAUREN BACALL’S JEWELS
MY
MOTHER,
LAUREN
BACALL
Leslie Bogart
recalls a legendary
love affair
with jewelry
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Leslie
Bogart
and
Lauren
Bacall,
1958
Stiller and Watts in
While We’re YoungM uSt
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Fans of the
queen of pop,
rejoice! After
months of
anticipation—
further fueled
by a surprise
release of six
tracks—
Madge’s new
album, Rebel
Heart, is fnally
set to arrive in
all its dance-
worthy glory.READ UP
Alternative-rock icon
Kim Gordon chronicles
her early life and years in
the group Sonic Youth,
followed by midlife
heartbreak, in her highly
anticipated new memoir, Girl in a Band. In Spring Chicken,
journalist Bill Giford dives into the latest research surrounding
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