Kris Jenner stepped onto the red carpet at the 21st Rome Film Festival on Oct. 24 wearing one of Elizabeth Taylor’s most recognizable pieces: the black velvet Scorpio Evening Cape with an ivory silk lining and silver scorpion embroidery.
An heirloom onstage and on screen
Jenner, who was in Rome with her daughter Kim Kardashian, is an executive producer on Kardashian’s legal drama All’s Fair for Hulu. Kardashian posted about the cape in Instagram Stories, saying the garment once belonged to Taylor and that Jenner now owns it. Kardashian added that she was allowed to wear the cape for the series.
“Fun fact about the cape my mom is wearing. It belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, and my mom now owns it and graciously let me wear it in All's Fair.”
Kardashian continued in her Instagram Stories, saying that after producer-writer Ryan Murphy heard the cape’s provenance and Taylor’s connection to a Scorpion Ball thrown for Grace Kelly, he wrote an episode that includes a similar event for Kardashian’s character, Allura Grant.
- The cape was designed for Taylor by Tiziani Roma and features two embroidered scorpions on the front.
- Taylor wore the robe to Grace Kelly’s 40th birthday on Nov. 15, 1969.
- The garment sold at Christie’s in 2011 for $74,000, and the auction listing suggested Karl Lagerfeld may have contributed to its design while freelancing for Tiziani.
Fashion, provenance and screen storytelling
The appearance bridges vintage Hollywood costume history and contemporary entertainment marketing: Kardashian’s post tied the cape’s provenance directly to the storylines of All’s Fair, a legal drama in which Kardashian stars, and to Murphy’s creative choices for the show. Jenner paired the cape with a long white dress, white gloves and a prominent diamond necklace on the Rome red carpet.
The event drew attention both for the dramatic visual of the cape itself and for its direct link to the television series. The Christie’s sale record cited the cape’s 2011 hammer price of $60,000 plus buyer’s premium, resulting in the $74,000 total noted in past auction coverage. The Christie’s listing also observed the possible involvement of Lagerfeld, who worked with Tiziani as a freelance designer at the time the garment was created.
The Rome Film Festival appearance was the public moment in which the garment was shown widely on an international red carpet and invoked in publicity for a current streaming series, underscoring how historic fashion pieces are sometimes repurposed as narrative and promotional elements for contemporary projects.
