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The business of art – A Utahn’s handmade jewelry is finding a market – including with celebrities at the Oscars

January 31, 2005 /

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When Cameron Diaz walked onto the stage at the 2003 Academy Awards, Kate Holland http://www.kateholland.com/ gasped. Around Diaz’s neck hung one of Holland’s designs, a $150 chrysophase necklace, accenting her black Prada gown.

Holland, working as a production assistant at the show, ran into an office to call her parents in Salt Lake City. They had already noticed and shared some cries of excitement.

"People wear quarter-of-a-million-dollar jewelry to the Oscars," Holland says. "Harry Winston, Fred Layton . . . They can wear any [designer] they want, so it was huge."

By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2545862