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"  Any girl who has contemplated returning jewelry to a jilted beau knows it&amp;#039;s not a passionless decision\u2014just ask Elizabeth Taylor. Or Solange Azagury-Partridge. Known for her seductive Sloane Ranger\u2013meets-psychedelic-disco-girl baubles and her infamous enamel lip rings, Azagury-Partridge decided to tackle this &amp;quot;ex&amp;quot; question in a short film, a collaboration with director Laurence Dunmore (The Libertine) and actors Thandie Newton and Jason Isaacs. Titled The Letter, the movie tells of a love quadrangle between Newton&amp;#039;s character, her husband (Isaacs), her lover (Raphael Edwards), and Stoned\u2014Azagury-Partridge&amp;#039;s new collection of rings, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets that play on the word&amp;#039;s many meanings. &amp;quot;I wanted to show the jewelry in a situation, not just an environment, and film is the perfect medium for that. The jewelry becomes part of the fabric of Thandie&amp;#039;s character&amp;#039;s life, and she&amp;#039;s addicted to it,&amp;quot; Azagury-Partridge says. Imagining anyone getting hooked on Stoned\u2014which offers a bangle in the shape of a narcotic poppy pod, gold enamel fruit-pit earrings called Cherry Stones, and a Gorgon pendant representing Medusa&amp;#039;s power to turn foes to rock\u2014isn&amp;#039;t a stretch. As you watch Newton&amp;#039;s character empty dozens of red velvet jewelry cases (Azagury-Partridge&amp;#039;s, of course) into a suitcase as she packs to leave her husband for her lover, you wonder what you&amp;#039;ve done wrong in life not to have a duffel&amp;#039;s worth of baubles yourself. And when Newton leaves her quarter-size cognac diamond engagement ring behind for Isaacs with a note, you can&amp;#039;t help but think she&amp;#039;s made a terrible mistake. Thankfully, in the end, Newton runs back to her flat, grabs the ring, and ditches both her lover and her husband for a life free of men and full of precious stones.  Moments before the designer&amp;#039;s party for the five-minute film at the members-only club Home House in London this winter\u2014packed with everyone from the gardener to friends Phoebe Philo and Matthew Willamson\u2014Azagury-Partridge expressed her simple expectations: &amp;quot;I hope people will have as much desire for the collection as Thandie&amp;#039;s character did!&amp;quot; As guests sipped Dom P\u00E9rignon and listened to &amp;#039;70s disco, Dunmore, Isaacs, and Newton revealed they&amp;#039;d all participated in the project in exchange for jewelry\u2014a far cry from a Paramount paycheck. As Newton showed off one of her choices, an emerald and amethyst cocktail ring, she shared her favorite part of the movie: &amp;quot;When she goes back and grabs her engagement ring! That was my idea\u2013who could leave that behind?&amp;quot;  CLICK HERE TO WATCH SOLANGE AZAGURY-PARTIDGE&amp;#039;S FILM THE LETTER  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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