The annual celebrity-filled trek to the south of France is upon us. Cannes film festival 2023 is well underway, and already the red carpet has been awash with the most impressive sparklers, with white diamond jewellery proving far and away the most popular choice this year.
Julia Garner
Gucci ambassador Julia Garner wore white gold and emerald earrings from the Gucci High Jewellery collection and a ring in white gold and and minty tourmaline with diamonds to the Asteroid City red carpet event. She paired this with a custom made green silk chiffon hand-draped gown, with cut-out and long shoulder drapes.
Jennifer Lawrence
For Lawrence’s scrolling, ribbon-like necklace, Dior’s creative director for jewellery Victoire de Castellane looked to the 1951 couture creations of the house’s founder, Christian Dior. The piece was crafted in 18k white gold and set with over 10 carats of white diamonds.
Gong Li
Gong Li was also a vision in scarlet as she walked the Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny red carpet (right down to the magenta streaks in her hair). She matched her look with a suite of Cartier jewels, including a pair of high jewellery ruby and diamond earrings, two ruby and diamond rings, and a further Panther head ring with in white gold with onyx and tsvorites.
Laura Harrier
American actor Laura Harrier accessorised her sleek tuxe with a little Bulgari bling. The Hollywood and Spider-Man: Homecoming star wore a high jewellery Monete necklace from the Italian house, which featured an ancient coin (we’re talking 400-350 BC) set as a pendant in pink gold, framed with mother of pearl and pavé white diamonds. She also wore a pair of antique Bulgari emerald stud earrings.
Natalie Portman
American actor and ‘Godmother’ of the 2023 Trophée Chopard, Portman wore a necklace from Chopard‘s Red Carpet Collection crafted in 18k Fairmined-certified white gold. It was set with over over 119 carats of blue heart-shaped sapphires and over 36 carats of white diamonds. She teamed the piece with matching white diamond earrings and a sapphire and white diamond ring.
Irina Shayk
Shayk paired her leather-finish gown with the one-of-kind Akh-Ba-Ka necklace by Messika. The diamond jeweller’s extraordinary Egyptian-inspired jewel from the 2022 High Jewellery collection is created in white gold and set with a 33-carat white diamond at its centre.
Ester Expósito
Spanish actor Expósito looked sublime in a set of Messika diamond jewellery for the Black Flies red carpet call. Her necklace, earrings and rings were all from the Maison’s Born to be Wild high jewellery collection.
Amy Jackson
Something About Rocks cover star Amy Jackson was a vision in a suite of Chopard jewels, which she styled with a sweeping all-black Pinko gown.
Aja Naomi King
King, who appears in a new Apple TV+ series this coming autumn, chose to wear Piaget diamond jewels for her latest red carpet appearance, with a high jewellery diamond necklace and matching drop earrings, a transformable diamond ring and another marquise-cut diamond ring. The suite took hundreds of hours of work to produce.
Michelle Yeoh
Yeoh continued her stellar post-Oscar tour in a bold green Balenciaga Haute Couture gown, accessorised with a suite of black and white Boucheron jewels including its ‘Grosgrain’ white gold high jewellery necklace, set with aventurine glass, cacholon and diamonds, and white gold pendant earrings adorned with diamonds and black lacquer. Her Pierre Graphique ring continued the monochromatic theme, with black lacquer and a dazzling white diamond.
Kirsten Dunst
Dunst paired a sleek, strapless LBD (long black dress, in this case) with a platinum and white diamond necklace from 2004, from the Cartier archive.
Gigi Hadid
Supermodel Hadid, a former Messika brand ambassador, attended the red carpet premiere of historical drama Firebrand looking smoking hot in a suite of Messika diamonds. She paired a double ring and pink and yellow diamond Toi et Moi ring from the Maison with its sumptuously lace-like Roaring Diamonds high jewellery necklace, from its Paris set One Fête collection. It was previous seen on the singer Chloe Bailey, who wore it to the 2021 Met Gala.
Alessandra Ambrosio
Model Ambrosio got to premiere a suite of new high jewellery pieces by Pomellato when she attended a screening of Jeanne du Barry at Cannes, part of a collection which will launch later this summer that has been inspired by Milanese architecture. Her gold Skyline necklace is set with 128 bezel-cut spinels in graduated hued and pavé diamonds, plus matching earrings with 12 coloured spinels.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
The British supermodel and entrepreneur added serious glitter to an all-black ensemble with a diamond parure from Bulgari. Her high jewellery Serpenti white gold choker held over 60 carats of pavé set diamonds and two pear shaped, brilliant-cut emeralds. She teamed this with a brace of high jewellery Serpenti bracelets – one was a multiple coiled snake with over 45 carats of white diamond pavé scales and pear shaped diamond eyes, the other gleamed with pear cut sapphire eyes.
Soo Joo Park
Supermodel Soo Joo Park teamed a slinky black sequinned custom YSL dress with glittering platinum, emerald and Paraiba tourmaline earrings and an emerald-cut green tourmaline ring from Cannes official partner, Chopard.
Dua Lipa
Singer Dua Lipa hit the Omar La Fraise (The King of Algiers) screening wearing platinum, yellow gold and diamond drop earrings, a matching multi-row diamond bracelet and a T1 white gold and diamond ring, all by Tiffany & Co.
Naomi Campbell
Supermodel Campbell attended the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon in a suite of heart-shaped diamond creations by the Festival’s partner brand, Chopard.
Fan Bingbing
Actor Fan Bingbing attended the glamorous Women’s Stories Gala looked angelic in a diamond ‘tutti frutti’ necklace and diamond ring from London-based Anabela Chan’s jewellery collection, created in collaboration with couturier Miss Sohee.
Viola Davis
Davis positively shimmered in white gold Chopard earrings featuring 13.72 carats of diamonds, plus a diamond and pink sapphire brooch, a white gold bracelet with over 90 carats of white diamonds and white diamond ring.
Alton Mason
Alton Mason rocked a dramatic high jewellery diamond ear cuff, ear clip and a high jewellery ring with an 11.81 carat brilliant-cut diamond all by Messika, for whom he is an ambassador.
Cate Blanchett
Blanchett stepped out at the photocall for The New Boy in an ornate logo ring and ear cuff by Louis Vuitton.
Lorena Rae
German model Rae accessorised her emerald green gown with the green tourmaline, sapphire, emerald and chrysoprase ‘Sous le Soleil’ necklace and matching ring by Chaumet. The pieces were part of the Maison’s Ondes et Merveilles high jewellery collection which launched last year.
Champoo A. Hagate
Thai actor and model Champoo adorned herself in diamond-studded high jewellery Serpenti necklaces (mixing her metals, with white and pink gold versions layered together), bracelet, rings and earrings by Bulgari.
Virginie Ledoyen
French actor Ledoyen chose to fly the French jewellery flag at Cannes, wearing an eye-catching high jewellery ‘question mark’ necklace set with a 3.59 carat emerald and round diamonds, plus an emerald ring by the Parisian house of Boucheron.
Laila Abdullah
Lebanese actor Laila Abdullah paired an unusual golden lip jewel from Messika with the Maison’s Divine Enigma high jewellery necklace, rings and earrings, plus its Move Iconica bracelet, worn high up on her arm.
Paz Vega
Spanish actor Vega opted for Messika, too, her strapless gown proving the perfect foil for the Maison’s Move Imperial high jewellery bib necklace, crafted with gold, malachite and diamonds.
Suzanna Son
The American actor, who stars alongside The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp in the new HBO series The Idol, hit the Cannes red carpet bedecked in jewels by Piaget – including a white gold cuff set with hundreds of white diamonds, a transformable diamond necklace and sapphire and white diamond ring.
Leonie Hanne
German model and influencer Hanne opted for a suite of Italian jewels by Bulgari for her appearance at the screening of Wes Anderson’s latest comedy, Asteroid City. She paired a high jewellery collier necklace with a 4.49 carat oval diamond with a pair of high jewellery diamond earrings and a matching high jewellery diamond ring.
Valery Kaufman
Kaufman’s dramatic gold jewels also came courtesy of Bulgari. Her flexible pink gold turbogas choker showcased a sensational 63.5-carat polished tanzanite cabochon as well as slivers of turquoise and white diamonds, perfectly matched by her tanzanite, turquoise and diamond earrings.
Maya Hawke
Speaking of Asteroid City, its star Maya Hawke opted to go with jewels by Cannes’ official jewellery partner, Chopard for her appearance at the film’s screening. She picked a Fairmined-certified 18k white gold necklace studded with over 169 carats of white diamonds and a pair of heart-shaped diamond stud earrings from the Maison’s high jewellery collection.
Emma Thynn
Chopard was also the jeweller of choice for The Marchioness of Bath this year. Her 18k Fairmined white gold necklace was set with over 60 carats of sparkling white diamonds, whilst her earrings were adorned with a further 14.16 carats of the stones.
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