Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend song is also featured in the 2001 film "Moulin Rouge!", in which it is sung principally by Nicole Kidman in the role of Satine, the (fictional) star performer of the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris, at the turn of the 20th century. This film version is technically a musical adaptation that director Baz Luhrmann titled "Sparkling Diamonds". Although it consists almost entirely of an adaptation of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", this version differs from the lyrics in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in several ways. For example, it does not include the name Harry Winston in the chant of
Diamonds (Amanda Lear song) performing the song in front of the Van Cleef & Arpels boutique at Place Vendôme. The video also includes scenes of the singer in a bath and eating breakfast in bed. Diamonds (Amanda Lear song) "Diamonds" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear released in 1979 by Ariola Records as the second single from her album "Diamonds for Breakfast". The song was composed and produced by Anthony Monn, Lear's long-time collaborator in the disco era, and is an uptempo pop track. The Amanda Lear-penned lyrics are a praise for diamonds, which she says for her are "just the best"