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Edward Callahan will be featured majorly in an upcoming documentary
titled “Harry Winston and the Oscars” which will air internationally in
Japanese. One of Japan’s
most acclaimed directors, Shogo Watanabe, flew into New
York expressly to interview Edward about his role in creating the
glitz & glamour on the Red Carpet at the Oscars for over 15 years largely
though his extensive network in Hollywood
with the top producers, managers and agents. Mr. Callahan was
interviewed for over two hours about how he re-invigorated the Harry Winston
brand and earned them the status,
Official Jeweler to The Academy Awards. He covered a lot of ground from
the early 1980s right up to the last Oscar campaign he handled. That year he ensembled 28 major stars with Winston jewels resulting in a PR campaign that
Winston’s advertising agency calculated worth an incredible $63 million in
print, broadcast and radio time! Fascinating stories are documented on how during Madonna’s performance of the “Dick Tracey” Oscar
nominated song, a VERY rich client form the Far East called and asked to have
the Harry Winston diamond necklace she was wearing immediately brought to LAX
Airport and delivered to one of his staff. He wanted to buy it as an
anniversary gift for one of his wives – he didn’t want them to take it to the
salon for a cleaning, so the wife got it complete with Madonna’s sweat and
makeup on it! Mr. Callahan revealed that Titanic nominee Gloria Stuart into designing
her own necklace built around a fabulously huge blue diamond he had Winston
bring in from SwitzerlandShe spent several days working with the head jeweler to
create the massive 220 carat necklace worth $20 million that she wore to the
Oscars – she didn’t win – Kim Basinger,
also dressed by Edward in Harry Winston did - but Gloria’s photo made
the front pages of papers around the world! All in all, through Edward’s efforts and that of his
partners at the fabled jewelry house Laurence Krashes and Kathleen Kerr who
gave him the necessary support, Harry Winston holds the record for having
dressed more Oscar winners than any jeweler in the world. His favorite line of his is “I’ve been lucky
enough to have had my arms around the necks of more beautiful movie stars than
Warren Beatty has”. There’s much , much more about everyone form Elizabeth
Taylor to Jennifer Lopez to Miss Piggy for whom he had a special hoof “ring”
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