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Sienna Miller wears a pair of diamond star tiaras at the Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, May 2018; the gala’s theme was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination”
Heavenly Bodies: Met Gala Jewels 2018
Blake Lively attends the 2018 Met Gala in New York (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
We’re interrupting our recent royal wedding anticipation with breaking tiara news from across the pond! On Monday, New York celebrated the worlds of art and fashion at the annual Met Costume Institute Gala. This year’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination,” meant that we had lots of inventive jewels — especially tiaras, crosses, and halos! — on display.
Amanda Seyfried attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Amanda Seyfried wore starry jewels, including a golden star tiara
Sienna Miller attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Sienna Miller went for the “more is more” philosophy, piling on two star tiaras
Greta Gerwig attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Greta Gerwig went for simple and severe with a hair ornament from Tiffany
Paris Jackson attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Paris Jackson paid tribute to the 1920s, wearing her tiara a la Josephine
Katie Lee attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Katie Lee balanced a golden wreath tiara with a cross necklace
Hailee Steinfeld attends the 2018 Met Gala (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) |
Pearls were Hailee Steinfeld’s gem of choice, including a pearly tiara
Emilia Clarke attends the 2018 Met Gala (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) |
Emilia Clarke glittered in jewels from Dolce and Gabbana
Jared Leto attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Jared Leto proved that men can enjoy tiaras, too!
Anya Taylor-Joy attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Anya Taylor-Lee went full-on with her floral wreath ornament and a cherubic necklace
Priyanka Chopra attends the 2018 Met Gala (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
Priyanka Chopra was gorgeous in a bejeweled hood and capelet
Fabiola Beracasa Beckman attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Fabiola Beracasa Beckman echoed the Renaissance world with her headpiece and necklace
Kerry Washington attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Kerry Washington glittered in a golden floral hair ornament
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley glowed in a simple golden halo
SZA attends the 2018 Met Gala (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
SZA went for a starry silver and gold halo
Blake Lively attends the 2018 Met Gala (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) |
Blake Lively joined the golden halo club with this complicated headpiece
Solange Knowles attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Solange Knowles wore this fascinating halo, made of braided fibers, with hoop earrings
Amber Heard attends the 2018 Met Gala (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) |
Amber Heard chose a balanced, spiky golden halo
Lily Collins attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Lily Collins went for dramatic black with her halo headpiece
Madonna attends the 2018 Met Gala (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
Madonna chose a suitably dramatic diadem of crosses
Mindy Kaling attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Mindy Kaling accessorized with a majorly oversized crown
Sarah Jessica Parker attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Sarah Jessica Parker balanced a Neapolitan nativity scene on her head!
Winnie Harlow attends the 2018 Met Gala (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
Winnie Harlow glittered in a beautiful diamond leaf necklace
Uma Thurman attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Gem-set crosses adorned Uma Thurman’s necklace, earrings, and hair ornament
Hikari Mori attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Hikari Mori wore a modern necklace set with diamonds and pearls
Jill Kargman attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Jill Kargman’s earrings featured a shower of falling stars
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez attend the 2018 Met Gala (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
Jennifer Lopez sparkled in diamond set wings from Tiffany
Wendy Yu attends the 2018 Met Gala (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) |
Traditional girandoles were Wendy Yu’s choice for the evening
Zoe Kravitz attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Zoe Kravitz stunned in a pair of pale pink statement earrings
Amal Clooney attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Amal Clooney wore an impressive pair of statement earrings from Lorraine Schwartz
Rihanna attends the 2018 Met Gala (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Rihanna’s ensemble almost distracted from her vintage ’30s Cartier necklace
Princess Beatrice of York attends the 2018 Met Gala (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) |
Sadly, Princess Beatrice of York didn’t use the event as an opportunity for a tiara debut, but she did wear a few Renaissance-esque hairbands, plus a bejeweled gown
Classic Jewels at the 2017 Met Gala
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The annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is an evening devoted to the spectacular and the unusual in the world of fashion. This year’s exhibit, “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between,” gave the gala attendees license to wear seriously avant-garde fashion; even so, we also saw lots of classic and vintage jewelry pieces on the red carpet. Here’s a collection of some of my favorites.
Nineteenth-century diamond floral motif pendant earrings, courtesy of Fred Leighton, on journalist Megyn Kelly (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) |
Exaggerated diamond and emerald cluster stud earrings from Cartier, worn by actress Dakota Johnson (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Musician Nicki Minaj in spectacular diamond and ruby girandole earrings by Nina Runsdorf (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) |
A Bulgari serpenti bracelet for each of model Bella Hadid’s wrists (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Cascading diamond earrings from Harry Winston on model Behati Prinsloo (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly) |
A modern twist on the classic diamond fringe necklace from model Liu Wen (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Diamond crescent earrings from Chopard on model Adriana Lima (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Major layered diamond necklaces, including floral and ribbon motifs, on actress Katie Holmes (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
A Cartier brooch from the 1960s adorned the lapel of musician The Weeknd (Theo Wargo/Getty Images For US Weekly) |
This vintage Cartier necklace, worn by actress Laura Dern, renders a traditional insect motif in elegant diamonds and gold (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Fred Leighton loaned actress Claire Danes a pair of nineteenth-century gold dart earrings, plus a cut steel arrow brooch worn in her hair, reminiscent of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden at her pre-wedding gala (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) |
Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez wore a pair of diamond earrings by Harry Winston, similar to earrings recently worn by Princess Charlene of Monaco (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) |
A stack of vintage diamond bracelets from Cartier glittered on the wrist of model Miranda Kerr (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) |
Vogue editor Anna Wintour shone in layered diamond necklaces, one with a floral motif, the other a classic riviere (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) |
Actress Elle Fanning looked like a princess in an Art Deco bandeau of diamonds and aquamarines from Fred Leighton (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) |