On Tuesday, Kim Kardashian arrived at the Palais de Justice to testify against her 2016 robbers, covered in maharaja-worthy diamonds. We know that her spectacular necklace contained 80 stones that totaled 52.17 carats, because its designer, Samer Halimeh New York, put out a press release before the cameras even stopped flashing.
This works in America, where wealth is so conflated with virtue that Trump is serving his second term, but French culture relishes turning that value system on its head. Or chopping it off entirely.
