Born Amy Isabella Crocker in Sacramento in 1864, Aimée Crocker is known for being one of the most exuberant women of her time. She was the daughter of Edwin B. Crocker, a Californian Justice, businessman, and developer of the Western American railway. Despite a wealthy and conservative upbringing, since childhood Aimée’s life was filled with scandals and affairs propelled by her love of freedom and adventure.

Over the course of her life she had multiple lovers and husbands whom she had met over the course of her travels. In her 1936 autobiography And I’d Do It Again she writes about her friendships with quirky and controversial artists of that time such as Oscar Wilde. She tells stories about her stormy romances with royalty from the 19th and early 20th centuries and about her expeditions to the Far East. She was even once given the title of “Queen of Bohemia” because of all the oddities she purchased and exported from there.

Aimée Crocker was a princess, an author, an actress, but most notably an important figure of feminism. Her tremendous life, as rich and as exuberant as it was cosmopolitan, is embodied in this emerald and diamond necklace by Janesich.