BRIDGERTON - Ellen Mirojnick and Lorenzo Mancianti

If Jewels Could Talk with Carol Woolton

Carol Woolton

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

9.6 • 42 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

No one on the planet can have missed the mass hysteria created over Bridgerton, Shonda Rhimes' Netflix show. If you’re one of the rare people who haven’t watched it, I urge you to do so, it's a sort of new Gossip Girl meets Jane Austen, offering visually compelling escapism set around a fictional high society in London’s Regency era, dancing at ostentatious balls and dances, sipping tea in empire-waist gowns, and reading gossip about the night before, written by an anonymous columnist named Lady Whistledown.

Now, there was a craving for jewellery during the Regency era, fuelled in part by the Prince Regent’s insatiable appetite for jewels and the endless whirl of social events. The spectacular costumes in Bridgerton include royalty-worthy gems, which have set the sales of early 19th century style jewellery spiking - due to my guests today. I’m delighted to welcome Ellen Mirojnick, the legendary Emmy-winning American costume designer, and Lorenzo Mancianti, jewellery and prop designer, who was in the wardrobe department knocking up tiaras by the dozen.

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0:00.0	Bridgeton hasn't escaped people's lips, ideas, or anything.
0:10.2	And it's, I've been doing this quite a long time.
0:13.3	But nothing, nothing equals the success of Bridgeton, which is absolutely insanity.
0:21.5	Welcome to a Jewel's Could Talk.
0:24.0	I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewelry, an author, broadcaster, and the woman who initiated
0:29.4	the role of Jewelry editor at magazines like Tattler and British Vogue.
0:34.5	This is a podcast for everyone.
0:36.5	For people who do like jewelry, for people who don't realise they like jewellery,
0:41.1	and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts, new ideas and forgotten histories.
0:47.2	So please join me as I tell sparkly tales, meeting all sorts of people,
0:52.6	delving into four centuries of jewelry culture and investigate
0:56.5	what's happening now.
1:03.6	No one on the planet can have missed the mass hysteria created over Bridgeton, Shonda Rhyne's
1:10.2	Netflix show.
1:11.7	If you're one of the rare people who haven't watched it yet, I urge you to do so.
1:16.1	It's a sort of new gossip girl meets Jane Austen, offering visually compelling escapism,
1:22.5	set around a fictional high society in London's Regency era, who dance at ostentatious balls,
1:29.3	sip tea in Empire Waste gowns,
1:32.3	we gossip about the night before,
1:34.3	whilst looking for a husband.
1:36.3	The spectacular costumes include royalty-worthy gems
1:41.3	which have set the sales of 19th century jewellery spiking, all due to my guests today.
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