Then she blew it. He judged the necklace 'dreadful' and the bracelet 'even worse'. In real life, the conversation ended in laughter. She is still friends with Serge. She never wears the necklace.
Friendship is a delicate business, it seems.
The necklace incident recalls Art where a friendship is also jeopardised by an aesthetic difference of opinion. Not at all. It is not a question of lying. It is style that counts. This may be true for Reza in more ways than one.