Emma Chamberlain faces backlash for wearing Maharaja of Patiala's necklace at Met Gala 2022

Emma Chamberlain, who is the newest brand ambassador of Cartier jewels, caught everyone's eye at the Met Gala 2022 for wearing Maharaja of Patiala's diamond choker. The famous YouTuber is now facing backlash over social media and has garnered much criticism for wearing the seemingly colonized antique neckpiece.

 

Emma Chamberlain faces backlash for wearing Maharaja of Patiala's necklace at Met Gala 2022

 

While this year's Met Gala red carpet saw several celebrities wearing iconic pieces of clothing or accessories important in history staying true to the 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion' theme, Emma Chamberlain chose to sport Louis Vuitton dress with a bejeweled diamond pieces including a tiara and diamond choker, a seemingly colonized piece of jewellery, at the glamourous event held on May 2 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The necklace belonged to Maharaja of Patiala Bhupinder Singh and was created by Cartier in 1928. It reportedly featured 2,930 diamonds, including the world's seventh-largest diamond, at the time.

 

As the reports mention, in 1928, Patiala's Maharaja decided to turn the world's seventh-largest diamond, the De Beers diamond, into a necklace. He hired Cartier to make a necklace. The necklace mysteriously disappeared after his son Maharaja Yadavindra Singh last wore it in 1948. It was known as the famous Patiala necklace. It reappeared in London and disappeared for some time before being "buy-back" by Cartier. Whil, the claim that the choker was "stolen" has not been substantiated, netizens called her out for wearing the antique neckpiece, and bashed the famous internet personality calling the piece of jewelry “stolen choker” in the comments of her Instagram photos.

 

One of the Twitter users wrote, "So I just found out Emma Chamberlain wore the Maharaja of Patiala’s necklace at the met gala… this is wayyy worse than kim wearing marilyn monroe’s dress. It has a deep and painful history attached to it. Very on theme, nothing screams gilded glamour quite like expropriation." While another tweeted, "Thanks #cartier. Those are the jewels of the Maharaja of Patiala. That’s a piece of India’s stolen history, not a fancy piece of jewellery to lend out to celebrities. Disrespectful on so many levels."

 

 

 

 

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