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She may not be an actress, but Bella Hadid has looked as chic as a classic Hollywood star for her red carpet appearances at this year's Cannes Film Festival. First, there is the throwback cat-eye makeup, and then there are her gowns—the stunning red, silk quilted Dior number and the custom, blush Alexandre Vauthier gown with a sweetheart neckline and a thigh-high slit were right out of the classic glam playbook. The 20-year old model’s jewelry, however, has clinched the old-school style to perfection. Look familiar? Her Bulgari treasures looked like they could have come from Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry box.

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The Serpenti necklace and bracelet are descendants of the style the legendary movie star popularized in 1962. A photo of Taylor wearing her gold and diamond Bulgari snake bracelet on the Rome film set of Cleopatra became a part of the barrage of press surrounding the production where she fell in love with Richard Burton.

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Bulgari has steadily been making various styles of Serpenti’s ever since the mid-twentieth century, and the pieces Bella wore have been wildly popular with stars on the red carpet for years. In fact, Bella wore two of Bulgari’s Serpenti bracelets at the MET Gala with her Alexander Wang cat suit. For Cannes, she put on one of the bracelets covered in around 50-carats of diamonds with a Bulgari Serpenti necklace pavé-set in almost 75-carats of diamonds.

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The necklace Hadid wore to the opening ceremony also correlates with one of Taylor’s famous treasures. Bella’s diamond and platinum link necklace–named Il Magnifico for good reason–features an eye-popping 180-carat sugarloaf cabochon sapphire pendant. The modern look of the jewel, and more specifically the central sapphire, is reminiscent of Elizabeth Taylor’s Bulgari diamond and platinum necklace set with a 52.72-carat sugarloaf cabochon sapphire, pictured here. A rarity in jewelry, the sugarloaf was originally designed around the 1920s and named after the conical form sugar was once sculpted into before the invention of the sugar cube.

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Elizabeth Taylor acquired her sugarloaf sapphire necklace in 1972. It was a 40th birthday present from her husband Richard Burton. When it was sold at Christie’s with Taylor’s estate in 2011, Bulgari bought it for a whopping $5,906,500. The piece has appeared in several Bulgari exhibitions over the last few years. In 2013, it was worn by Jessica Chastain at the Cannes Film Festival to a special 50th anniversary screening of the Taylor-Burton epic Cleopatra.

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How much do the Serpenti pieces and Il Magnifico cost, you may wonder? Unfortunately, the figures for pieces like this are kept under wraps by the famed jewelry house. The prices are only revealed to serious clients; but, it's safe to say, that kind of old Hollywood glamour requires a modern blockbuster sized budget.

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