Tiffany's Hawai'i store to show older work

By Paula Rath
Advertiser Staff Writer

•	Popcorn & Diamonds A benefit for the Hawai'i Theatre presented by Tiffany & Co. Saturday 6:30 p.m., cocktails and pupu; 8 p.m. showing of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; music, dancing, no-host cocktails follow Cost: $75 per person (fully tax deductible) Reservations: Call Victoria Okada at 791-1302

The script and title were written long before marketing mavens infiltrated Hollywood to "place product." Rather, it was the playwright and the filmmakers who decided that Tiffany & Co., top-flight New York jewelers since 1837, were the right match for the character, representing everything that Golightly yearned to be.

This month, Tiffany is bringing a historical exhibit of its archival pieces to Honolulu, works created by Tiffany designer Jean Schlumberger as well as contemporary designs by Elsa Peretti and Paloma Picasso, in "The Diamonds of Tiffany & Co: A Heritage of Glamour and Authority," on display at the Tiffany store at Ala Moana now through Aug. 28.

The collection includes a priceless diamond necklace set in platinum and gold, referred to as the Wade family necklace, replete with diamond swags and convertible to a bracelet and shorter necklace. Also on view will be the Wreath necklace, a weave of 228 round and pear-shaped diamonds, and a Victoria two-row necklace with 456 diamonds in a clean, graphic motif.

The firm also is hosting a benefit, Popcorn & Diamonds, for Hawai'i Theatre, featuring a showing of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the opportunity to get up close to a selection of the jewelry pieces, the chance to win a one-karat solitaire Tiffany diamond, and cocktails and hors d'oeuvres before and music and dancing (on the theater stage) following the showing.