Elizabeth Taylor's 1969 Scorpio Ball Returns, 63 Carats at a Time

Kim Kardashian has gone to the archive for the second season of "All's Fair," and she went straight to one of its best-thumbed pages. The look is a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor as she appeared at the Scorpio Ball in 1969, the kind of reference that rewards anyone who never threw out their old magazines. Pulling it off took close to 63 carats of diamonds, with a value put at $2.7 million. That is a quantity of stone that announces itself before the wearer does, which is rather the point of a Taylor homage. Credit the Skims founder for choosing a year and an occasion with precision instead of gesturing vaguely at old Hollywood. The date matters: 1969 Taylor is a very particular Taylor, and this homage clearly knew which one it wanted. On a television screen, the diamonds do the work the still camera once did for Taylor herself.

With reporting from Page Six Style.