If you were among the millions tuning into the 2010 Emmy Awards last night, you probably saw the gorgeous Padma Lakshmi sauntering on stage alongside superstar chef Tom Colicchio and the Top Chef producers to accept the revered cooking show's award in the Best Reality Competition category — a long overdue nod after The Amazing Race's seven-year-long monopoly on the award.
And if you're a fashion hound, your eyes probably zoomed in on Padma's statement necklace, a chest plate-like piece with layers of bead-like pyrite stones and a strip of garnet stones arranged so as to create a thin strip running vertically along the necklace. Two longer chain strands dangle along the sides of the Masai necklace, each culminating in an ethnic-flavored charm: one, a golden leaf with tiger's eye, hessonite, yellow sapphire, blue sapphire, emerald, ruby, diamond, pearl and coral stones arranged in a floral pattern; and the other, a golden horn shape.
The Masai necklace is part of the Padma by Padma Lakshmi Fall 2010 collection and is available at PadmaLakshmi.com and at Bergdorf Goodman.
