For a more traditional rendition, Lilly Pulitzer carries a cotton pullover with a single line of diamonds across the chest in Palm Beach brights (center; $112 at www.lillyshop.com), and Brooks Brothers makes a wool and cashmere V-neck in camel and chocolate brown.
Alongside this, there are items that have divided the taste-makers, including the Kimye issue of American Vogue, the Tom Ford editorial for Vogue Paris featuring a sexualised child model, and David LaChapelle's portrait of a woman snorting a line of diamonds as if they were cocaine.
You might think that after selling nearly three million copies of his 2004 début album, "The College Dropout," winning three awards at the Grammys (where he cavorted onstage in angel wings), hearing Jay-Z, hip-hop's paterfamilias, call him a "genius" in a rap song, and launching a line of diamond-encrusted Jesus head pendants, West would be feeling reasonably swell.
Leviev is socking away his own supply for the Vivid Collection, a line of diamond jewelry.
"It's like tattoos," AS29 designer Audrey Savransky said, showing off a $15,320 white-gold cuff with four lines of diamonds that flow up the forearm.
Or would it be the zipper necklace, with lines of diamond teeth, made in 1951 at the inspiration of the Duchess of Windsor, whose hard face and sharp jewels appear in a photograph on the wall?
Taylor, though, wants Rolls to be the carmaker offering that extra layer - that element of intrigue, of surprise, he says, "along the lines of diamond flakes in paint".
He deciphered a line of green diamonds as a "National Trail/Long Distance Route" and distinguished it from a chain of black pinpricks (Boundary: Civil Parish (CP)) or tiny segregated dashes (Electricity Transmission Line).
During my first time here, quite a while ago now, they had me spellbound when they poured a caterpillar sized line of pink diamonds.
A second strand may have to be removed to provide the correct line-up of "diamonds".
Loop, a 2-month-old Los Angeles-based brand designed to make ring shopping easier, recently debuted a line of 20 diamond rings priced at $200.
