{"id":137458,"date":"2025-10-22T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137458\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:39:10","slug":"isha-ambani-co-chaired-the-british-museums-pink-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137458\/","title":{"rendered":"Isha Ambani Co-Chaired the British Museum\u2019s Pink Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York has its first Monday in May. Now London has its third Saturday in October. In what is being called the UK\u2019s answer to the Met Gala, the British Museum held its inaugural Pink Ball on Saturday. The institution\u2019s fundraising gala, remarkably the first ever in its 272-year-old history, drew a flurry of fashion, entertainment, and cultural glitterati, all dressed in appropriately rosy black tie, to celebrate the museum\u2019s \u201cAncient India: Living Traditions\u201d exhibition. Naomi Campbell, Lady Kitty Spencer, Mick Jagger, Laura Carmichael, and Steve McQueen were among those who walked the pink carpet, before being greeted by the evening\u2019s hosts: Nicholas Cullinan, the British Museum\u2019s new-ish director<\/a>, and Isha Ambani.<\/p>\n

In homage to Indian craftsmanship and heritage, she wore a custom blush pink look by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla, with pearls, sequins, and crystals intricately hand-embroidered into motifs inspired by the frescoes and tapestries of Indian palaces. More than 35 artisans spent 3,670 hours creating the jacket and skirt. \u201cIn India, pink is the color of warmth, welcome and joy. It evokes a spirit of openness and grace integral to our culture,\u201d Ambani told WWD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for her jewels, she chose a suite of antique emerald hearts<\/a> from\u2014where else?\u2014her mother Nita\u2019s outstanding personal collection. You might remember Mrs. Ambani nearly broke the internet last year with the emerald \u201cbrick\u201d<\/a> (among other gems) she wore for her son Anant\u2019s wedding festivities.<\/p>\n

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Mom came out to support and accompany her daughter on Saturday night, too. She wore a powder pink mulberry silk Kanjivaram sari from Swadesh, meticulously handwoven by R. Varadan, a third-generation master artisan from the town of Kanchipuram. Emerald was also the theme of her jewels for the evening: at Mrs. Ambani\u2019s direction, her emerald and diamond sautoir, made of stones from the philanthropist\u2019s personal archive, was designed after the legendary necklace of the Maharani of Indore.<\/p>\n

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Leena Kim is Town & Country\u2019s Editor, covering the travel, jewelry, style, arts and culture, education, and weddings beats. She has no priors\u2014she has been at the magazine for 11 years, having started her career at T&C as the assistant to the editor in chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York has its first Monday in May. Now London has its third Saturday in October. In what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,14604,81628,343,18,117,19,17,590,81627],"class_list":{"0":"post-137458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-content-type-round-up-general","10":"tag-contentid-dab95ffd-64d9-46b9-bd57-2a40e99be866","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-locale-us","17":"tag-shorttitle-isha-ambani-co-chaired-the-british-museum-ball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}