Met Gala 2026: who wore the best jewellery at fashion’s biggest night out?

The centrepiece of Ambani’s custom Lorraine Schwartz choker was a 50-carat Colombian emerald that had a previous life: Angelina Jolie wore it in a ring setting at the 2009 Oscars. The choker added three rows of round-cut diamonds, and the rest of the look followed suit: shoulder-length chandelier earrings, multiple diamond cocktail rings, a diamond-and-emerald brooch at the bust and, throughout, diamonds from her own family's collection. On the carpet she described it simply as “a blouse full of my mother’s jewellery.” That is the whole story, told better than any caption could.

Lisa’s Bulgari necklace was built around a single stone: a 50-carat oval cabochon sapphire, encircled by a halo of brilliant-cut diamonds. Cabochon cutting, which produces a smooth domed surface rather than facets, is typically reserved for coloured stones of exceptional clarity, and a 50-carat example in deep blue is rare by any measure. Diamond bracelets and rings from Bulgari filled out the look. The sapphire was the point, and everything else existed to frame it.

Rosé of Blackpink, in a black strapless Saint Laurent gown by Anthony Vaccarello and styled by Law Roach, wore the Palm necklace from Tiffany & Co’s Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden collection. The piece is set in platinum and centres on a 4.26-carat cushion-cut E-colour, VS1 diamond, with additional diamond accents. The Palm chapter of the collection is drawn from Jean Schlumberger’s sketches of palm trees in motion. She also wore platinum earrings with over 9 carats of diamonds and a platinum ring with a natural diamond of over 7 carats.

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Seyfried’s Tiffany & Co necklace, set in 18-karat yellow gold and platinum, combined five emerald-cut blue zircons, round cabochon emeralds and natural diamonds, an unusual mix of stones that read as colourful rather than colourless. Her earrings were Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany & Co Five Leaves, set with aquamarines in platinum and 18-karat yellow gold. A 5.74-carat oval-cut diamond ring with additional diamond accents completed the look. Worn with a pink Prada gown, the whole look leaned into colour in a way that most guests, reaching for white diamonds, did not.

The Heated Rivalry star, in a Saint Laurent ensemble styled by James Yardley, wore more Tiffany & Co pieces than most guests across all their jewellery combined. Diamond Tiffany Rope huggie earrings. A double-brooch on his turtleneck set with two cushion cabochon rubellites and diamonds. On his lapel, a Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany & Co Fleurage brooch in platinum and 18-karat yellow gold, centred on a rubellite of over 3 carats. A diamond and ruby ring. An Omega timepiece. The rubellite, a pink-red variety of tourmaline, ran as the consistent colour note across the whole look.

Beyoncé’s Chopard necklace from the Garden of Kalahari collection featured a 6.41-carat brilliant-cut diamond as its centrepiece, with a further 140 carats of diamonds surrounding it. Her earrings came from Chopard’s Precious Lace collection. The Garden of Kalahari takes its name from the Kalahari Desert, where some of the world’s most significant diamond deposits are found, and the collection is built around the concept of diamonds in their natural, uncut environment. As dressed-up origin stories go, it holds up on the carpet.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 actor arrived at the Met Gala in a custom Michael Kors Collection black silk-and-wool Mikado strapless gown styled by Erin Walsh, and wore Bulgari’s Magnifica High Jewelry diamond spike necklace. Her earrings were mismatched by design: a gold Vimini single spike earring on one ear, a diamond stud on the other. The Magnifica collection is one of Bulgari’s most architecturally ambitious high jewellery lines, and the spike motif recurs throughout. The asymmetry in the earring choice was a Bulgari creative decision, not an afterthought.

Jisoo’s jewellery spanned 121 years of Cartier history in a single look. The choker necklace dates to 1905, the foliate ear clips to 1948: both are archival Cartier Collection pieces, which the house preserves and loans rather than sells. She paired them with two contemporary rings, the Étincelle de Cartier and the Broderie de Cartier. The Cartier Collection, which the house has built since 1972, now numbers over 1,600 pieces and functions as a travelling museum of the house's history. Two of those pieces made it to the Met Gala 2026 carpet.
 

Blunt was the only guest on the carpet in pearls. Mikimoto, the Japanese house that pioneered cultured pearl farming in the late nineteenth century, made a custom Akoya pearl bodychain for the occasion, worn with pearl earrings and a pearl ring. Akoya pearls, which are produced by the Pinctada fucata oyster primarily in Japanese waters, are prized for their high lustre and near-perfect round shape. They are also considerably smaller and rarer-looking than the South Sea pearls that tend to dominate red carpet jewellery. In a room of diamonds, the choice registered immediately.

Waterhouse wore Boucheron high jewellery across three pieces: a crown, a bracelet and a ring. The crown is the rarest of the three formats: Boucheron has historically produced tiaras and hair jewels for European royalty, and a high jewellery crown at the Met Gala is not something that appears on the carpet regularly. No further details on the specific pieces were released by the house at time of publication, but the crown was the dominant visual note of the look, and Waterhouse wore it as though she had nowhere more pressing to be.

Edgar-Jones wore the Laurier pendant earrings from Boucheron’s Histoire de Style: Untamed Nature high jewellery collection. The Laurier, meaning laurel in French, is a recurring motif in Boucheron’s archive, drawn from the house’s long tradition of nature-inspired jewellery design that dates to its founding in 1858. The Untamed Nature collection takes that tradition into full high jewellery territory, with stones and settings that reference botanical forms at scale. The earrings, worn without competing pieces, carried the whole look.

Kidman co-hosted the evening in a crimson sequin and feather Chanel gown, styled by Jason Bolden, and wore two Chanel jewellery pieces. Her starburst diamond earrings are a format long associated with the house, with versions appearing in Chanel’s collections since the mid-twentieth century. The cocktail ring on her index finger was the more unusual piece: natural diamonds set around a ruby centre stone within a blue lacquer frame. The combination of diamonds, ruby and lacquer in a single ring reflects Chanel’s history of mixing fine jewellery materials with its signature decorative elements.

Moore wore earrings and an ear cuff from Messika’s Midnight Sun high jewellery collection. Messika, the Paris-based house founded by Valérie Messika in 2005, built its identity on diamond jewellery designed to move, with stones set in flexible mounts that follow the body rather than sitting rigid against it. The Midnight Sun collection takes its reference from the phenomenon of continuous daylight in Arctic summer, and the diamond settings are designed to maximise light return from multiple angles simultaneously. Moore wore the collection at its most pared back: two pieces, both at the ear.

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Rihanna did not wear a necklace, a ring or a bracelet. She wore three ear pieces: the Briony Raymond Sloan pavé ear cuffs and the DYNE Elixia diamond ear cuff, all stacked on the ear. Briony Raymond is a New York-based jeweller known for repurposing antique and archival diamond settings; DYNE is a London-based fine jewellery house. Neither is a traditional red carpet sponsor, and the combination of the two, worn as the only jewellery on the look, was the whole statement.

Jenner wore two Buccellati pieces: the Rete Con Perle earrings and a Rolo pendant. The Rete, meaning net in Italian, is one of Buccellati’s most identifiable techniques: gold worked into an open mesh structure that gives it a textile-like weight and texture. Con Perle refers to the pearls incorporated into the mesh setting. The Rolo pendant takes its name from the Rolo chain link, a circular interlocked format the house has used since the mid-twentieth century. Both pieces are signature Buccellati in that the goldsmithing technique is the story, not the stone.

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Brody wore a single piece from Elsa Jin Jewelry: a sculptural brooch in the form of wings, with diamond fringe running along the bottom edge of each wing and a large pear-shaped diamond set on the inner edge of one wing to create an asymmetrical silhouette. Elsa Jin is a New York-based jewellery designer known for pieces that sit at the boundary between jewellery and wearable sculpture. The asymmetry of the pear diamond placement means the piece reads differently depending on the angle, which for a brooch worn on a moving body, is the entire point.

Batiste wore an all-white ensemble from LA label ERL by Eli Russell Linnetz, including a ruffled white dress shirt, and pinned a single natural diamond dangling brooch to the shirt. No other jewellery. The brooch format, which had a significant moment in menswear at the Met Gala 2026 with Storrie also wearing multiple examples, is a historically male jewellery form that largely disappeared from mainstream fashion in the twentieth century before reappearing on red carpets in recent seasons. Batiste wore one, unaccompanied, and let it move.

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