Kathy Hilton’s Jewelry Drop Finds Inspiration from Her Personal Collection (Exclusive)

When Kathy Hilton and jewelry designer Anna Zuckerman set out to create their Summer 2025 jewelry collection, they didn’t have to look far for inspiration.

While designing the collection, which drops June 16, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 66, and Zuckerman looked at pieces from Hilton’s own collection of extravagant fine jewelry (which counts a pair of earrings from Elizabeth Taylor among it) to see how they could recreate them in an affordable, sustainable way. All of Zuckerman’s designs are made with diamond crystalline, which repurposes salvaged lab-grown and gem materials.

“I just wanted to take things from gifts and things from my mother and my grandmother, my mother-in-law, a couple of things my husband made me, and share things that I had a lot of compliments on,” Hilton tells PEOPLE. “Some are exact replicas and then there’s some that we added to.”

Hilton says the Calista necklace, for example, was inspired by a pink heart sapphire ring that her husband, Rick Hilton, once gifted her for Valentine’s Day.

Items in the line range from $125 to $2,000, and Hilton and Zuckerman’s hope is that people can build upon their own existing collection of Kathy Hilton x Anna Zuckerman pieces.

“It’s like White Lotus, to be continued,” Zuckerman says. “It’s a story, because now a lot of people are familiar with our first collection. So they have purchased it, and now what goes with it? People spend tens of thousands of dollars to wear something once a year. This is something you go out with your girlfriends and you have nice lunch, couple of drinks, and it elevates your mood.”

Hilton says Zuckerman showed up to a recent dinner at Benihana decked out in pieces from the collection. Earlier in the day, she says they had filmed together and the “dress code was very feminine.”

“She had a flower crown on, and her other friend had a flower crown, and we’re at this table, and they go, ‘Did you just come from a wedding?'” Hilton says. “She was dressed to the nines. I’m used to Anna, so this was nothing. I was laughing because the people next to us had a little boy, and even he was staring at you and all your jewelry. They of course thought it was real.”

“Yeah, we spent all the money on jewelry and now we’re eating at Benihana,” Zuckerman jokes. “And all I’m trying to see is if they could land an egg inside of my flower crown.”

Next, Hilton and Zuckerman are going to do a trunk show in September during the Celebrity Adventure trip on the Ritz-Carlton yacht, and they hope to open up a “social club experience” where guests can shop their jewelry collection in Beverly Hills.