Editing Elizabeth Taylor (section)

===Style and jewelry collection===
[[File:Elizabeth Taylor 1.JPG|thumb|Taylor in a studio publicity photo in 1953]]

Taylor is considered a fashion icon both for her film costumes and personal style.<ref name="NYThoryn">{{cite web |last=Horyn |first=Cathy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/fashion/24LIZSTYLE.html |title=An Alluring Beauty Exempt From Fashion's Rules |work=The New York Times |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref name="vesilindLAT">{{cite web |last=Vesilind |first=Emili |url=https://www.latimes.com/fashion/alltherage/la-ig-elizabeth-taylor-20110324-story.html |title=As a fashion icon, Elizabeth Taylor could turn simple into sexy, elegance into excess |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref name="guardianfox">{{cite web |last=Fox |first=Imogen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-style-icon-hollywood |title=Elizabeth Taylor: style icon |work=The Guardian |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> At MGM, her costumes were mostly designed by [[Helen Rose]] and [[Edith Head]],<ref name="vogue">{{cite web |last=Cosgrave |first=Bronwyn |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/elizabeth-taylors-style-and-fashion-bronwyn-cosgrave |title=End Of An Era |work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=March 24, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> and in the 1960s by [[Irene Sharaff]].<ref name="vesilindLAT" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=5012 |title=Release: The Icon And Her Haute Couture -The Collection Of Elizabeth Taylor |publisher=[[Christie's]] |date=September 20, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> Her most famous costumes include a white ball gown in ''A Place in the Sun'' (1951), a Grecian dress in ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1958), a green A-line dress in ''Suddenly Last Summer'' (1959), and a slip and a fur coat in ''BUtterfield 8'' (1960).<ref name="NYThoryn" /><ref name="vesilindLAT" /><ref name="guardianfox" /> Her look in ''Cleopatra'' (1963) started a trend for "cat-eye" makeup done with black eyeliner.<ref name=Kashner />{{rp|135–136}}

Taylor collected jewelry through her life, and owned the {{convert|33.19|carat|g|adj=on}} [[Krupp Diamond]], the {{convert|69.42|carat|g|adj=on}} [[Taylor-Burton Diamond]], and the {{convert|50|carat|g|adj=on}} [[La Peregrina Pearl]], all three of which were gifts from husband Richard Burton.<ref name=Kashner />{{rp|237–238,258–259,275–276}} She also published a book about her collection, ''My Love Affair with Jewelry'', in 2002.<ref name="vesilindLAT" /><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Elizabeth Taylor: A Life in Jewels |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2011/11/elizabeth-taylor-jewels-slideshow-201111 |access-date=December 1, 2018 |first=Ruth |last=Peltason |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=November 23, 2011}}</ref> Taylor helped to popularise the work of fashion designers [[Valentino Garavani]]<ref name="vogue" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.valentinogaravanimuseum.com/features/1297/elizabeth-taylor |title=Elizabeth Taylor |publisher=Valentino Garavani Museum |date=March 24, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018 |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204073829/http://www.valentinogaravanimuseum.com/features/1297/elizabeth-taylor |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Halston]].<ref name="vesilindLAT" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Wohlfert |first=Lee |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-dressing-the-stars-vol-7-no-24/ |title=Cover Story: Dressing the Stars |work=People |date=June 20, 1977 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> She received a Lifetime of Glamour Award from the [[Council of Fashion Designers of America]] (CFDA) in 1997.<ref>{{cite web| last=Cowles |first=Charlotte |url=https://www.thecut.com/2011/03/elizabeth_taylor.html |title=A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor: Fashion Icon |work=New York |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> After her death, her jewelry and fashion collections were auctioned by [[Christie's]] to benefit her AIDS foundation, ETAF. The jewelry sold for a record-breaking sum of $156.8 million,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.christies.com/elizabethtaylor/saleroom.aspx |title=The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor |publisher=Christies |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> and the clothes and accessories for a further $5.5 million.<ref name="christieshc">{{cite web |url=https://www.christies.com/elizabethtaylor/saleroom_haute.aspx |title=The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor: The Icon and her Haute Couture, Evening Sale (III) |publisher=Christie's |date=December 14, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref>