Every time there’s a hot celebrity engagement or breaking news that involves celebrities and high-end jewelry, you will find the names of these top-tier professional designers alongside our hot couples.
The Wedding Scoop presents the world’s hottest jewelry designers and creators whom celebrities rely on for their exquisite works of luxurious art. Today, we’ll get to know them more and why they remain on top of their game.
1. Bulgari
Founded in 1884 by Sotirios Voulgaris in Rome, this Italian luxury jewelry brand owns its tagline, “Jeweller to the stars.” It has become synonymous with high-end, celebrity-approved luxury jewelry items, from engagement rings to opulent necklaces, earrings, and even designer perfume, watches, bags, and accessories.
Operating since the 1920s, their signature designs became popular in the 50s to 60s era. The Bulgari style and identity broke through traditional designs with modern and emerging styles of the Art Deco and Retro eras and a dazzling array of different stones, using gold and platinum settings.
Andy Warhol considered them “a museum of contemporary art”.
Bvlgari favored colored stones, cabochon-styled gems, cutting-edge designs, and exotic compositions, all become luxury pieces under the three Bvlgari brothers, Paolo, Gianni, and Nicola Bulgari. They prioritized color, visual appeal, and design rather than the actual value of the stones, making way for sapphires, turquoise, amethysts, and emeralds in high-end collections.
Their March 24, 2024, Eclettica High Jewelry Event featured Anne Hathaway, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Liu Yifei, and Kim Ji-won. Newly minted Bvlgari ambassadors Dua Lipa and Jake Gyllenhaal joined them.
The brand has also worked with Zendaya, Greta Gerwig, Bryce Dallas Howard, Gillian Anderson, and Adele Exarchopoulos. Iconic celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Sophia Lauren, Anita Ekberg, Gina Lollobrigida, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Naomi Campbell and Jessica Chastain have all worn the mega brand.
2. Mikimoto
Mikimoto is the world-renowned number one luxury brand for cultured pearls, founded in 1893 by Kokichi Mikimoto in Japan. He is a pioneer in the jewelry industry, being the first to successfully culture pearls.
The brand has since developed and followed very high global standards, using only the rare topmost 5 to 10% of the highest quality pearls harvested to maintain the strictest high-quality pearls and jewelry.
Rihanna, Salma Hayek, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, Marilyn Monroe, Nikki Kynard, Laura Kim, Paloma Elsesser, and many others are elegantly adorned with these premium pearls, raising their super high profile in the jewelry, fashion, and entertainment industry.
3. Piaget
Piaget exudes simple elegance and total luxury, something that only a few brands know and do well. They are a Swiss luxury watches and jewelry company that started in 1874.
Luxury watches are some of their number one lines. They currently have 5 categories and 7 collections in their repertoire. The brand extended this level of precision and mechanical craftsmanship into jewelry.
Their craftsmanship in jewelry fuses their obsession with sleek, timeless designs, motifs, and patterns, evident in their top-tier watches. They’ve become specialists in melding modern, minimalist, and avant-garde motifs. They use them in super elegant and precision-made rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and other high-end luxury pieces
Piaget showcases a mastery of gemstones, producing captivating and unique pieces that reflect sophistication and glamour. A symbol of luxury and creativity, Piaget has consistently pushed boundaries, earning its esteemed status as a purveyor of exceptional watches and exquisite jewelry.
Ryan Reynolds, Michael B. Jordan, Gianna Jun, Ella Richards, Lee-Jun Ho, Apo Nattawin, Solange Knowles, Kate Bosworth, and Terrence Howard are just some of the high-profile wearers on this luxury brand.
4. Graff
Graff is a classic, modern-day London jeweler with a penchant for rare and exceptional diamonds. This has become the brand’s specialty of sorts since Laurence Graff (hence the brand name) founded it in 1960.
Focusing on diamond domination through quality and rarity has made the brand a collector’s and connoisseur’s favorite. Their jewelry designs are equally spectacular, yet unique. Sana Minatozaki from K-pop group TWICE, and models Rianne van Rompaey and Grace Elizabeth, are their brand ambassadors.
Graff is also an ethical company. They use the Kimberley Process and do not do business with diamond sources that involve conflict or human suffering.
They have consistently won the Queen’s Award for Industry and Export since 1973. Their dazzling jewelry collections feature symmetrical designs and detailed patterns, with modern and Art Deco-inspired pieces. This translates to pavé platinum and gold bands and halos, intricate patterns and motifs, and unconventional yet luxurious rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and watches.
5. Buccellati
Buccellati excels in pretty and super high-end luxury jewelry with classic designs. Mario Buccellati founded the jewelry brand in Milan, Italy, in 1919. Many of its offerings feature Renaissance goldsmithing techniques along with his Baroque stylings in their jewelry designs, but updated for the modern era.
Many of its jewelry offerings feature lavish, old-school royal designs, lace motifs, arches, florals, and patterned jewels. There are also a lot of engraved and embossed motifs. It’s a celebration of the decadent and detailed look of this aristocratic era, which bore its influence on jewelry design.
It’s no wonder that this iconic Italian brand has high-profile fans and wearers, including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Cate Blanchett, Laura Dern, Sabrina Elba, Rita Ora, Zoe Saldana, Renée Zellweger, Pope Pius XII, and Angelina Jolie.
6. Van Cleef and Arpels
Since 1896, Van Cleef and Arpels has been creating classic, intricate, and colorful luxury rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants, watches, clips, and cufflinks. They also have unique antique offerings with designs from the 1920s, 1930s, and other classic eras from time to time, bringing both modern and classic luxury pieces.
Alfred Van Cleef and Salomon, aka Charles Arpels, his brother-in-law, founded the brand in 1896. They opened their first Van Cleef & Arpels boutique at 22 Place Vendôme. Jules, or Jullien, and Louis Arpels joined them in 1908 and 1912. The original store still stands at the same address.
The brand has celebrity fans and wearers, including Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Princess Diana, Ava Gardner, Farah Pahlavi, Eva Perón, Elizabeth Taylor, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Reese Witherspoon. Royalty members, the Duchess of Windsor, Queen Nazli of Egypt, and Queen Camilla, are also proud owners.
7. Cartier
The ever-enduring Cartier started in Paris in 1847, founded by Louis-François Cartier. King Edward VII called them “the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers.”
Over the years, they have expanded to include luxury jewelry, watches, leather goods, sunglasses, and eyeglasses in their stores.
Bold, beautiful designs marry with simple elegance and high art to create these Cartier luxury pieces. They blend Art Deco and contemporary designs with nature, architecture, and geometrical designs.
Cartier also pioneered the use of platinum in jewelry design, expanding intricate designs into jewelry and providing superior strength. Invisible prong platinum settings gave the diamonds and stones the central focus, creating even more breathtaking designs.
Cartier’s son Alfred took over the brand after he passed away. Alfred’s sons, Louis, Pierre, and Jacques, brought Cartier to the world and helped gain its international markets.
Cartier is No. 2 in the environmental rating of “Upper Midfield,” noting their practices are safe to the environment and climate change.
Celebrities and royalty love the brand until today. It is simply timeless and luxurious elegance. Stars who are fans and wearers include Dua Lipa, Zendaya, Kylie Jenner, Princess Diana, Jackie Kennedy, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, Dwayne Wade, Jeff Goldblum, Jacob Elordi, Taylor Swift, Zoe Saldañam, and Timothée Chalamet are some of the elite Cartier wielders.
8. Harry Winston
Renowned US jeweler Harry Winston, known as the “King of Diamonds,” founded Harry Winston Inc., his own jewelry company, in 1932. He became one of the jewelers and designers, and he is a cultural reference in the popular song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, his name appearing in the lyrics.
Aside from sourcing the highest quality diamonds and stones, Winston used mesmerizing, intricate designs with lovely patterns and occasional Art Deco influences and motifs. Today, the newer designs show bold, colorful stones, detailed patterns, pavé ornamentations, and large, impressive stones of super high quality, with exceptional colorless and clearness levels.
Rosario Dawson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Coco Rocha, Amal Clooney, Madonna, Helen Mirren, Julie Andrews, Natalie Portman, Jessica Alba, and Elizabeth Taylor are some of its high-profile wearers and fans.
The Swatch Group of Switzerland bought the brand on March 26, 2013, for $1 billion.
9. Dior
Christian Dior founded one of the most iconic fashion brands in December 16, 1946. His financier and partner Marcel Boussac invested in the company and made Dior one of the top luxury designers.
While the brand became renowned first for Haute Couture clothing and fashion, it soon branched out to include other luxury items such as handbags, lingerie, scarves, and jewelry. A licensing program by Jacques Rouët, the general manager, enabled them to use the brand name for quality, high-end items.
Soon their jewelry lines became high-end, wanted items, crafted with classic and natural designs of florals, bowties, leaves, hearts, medallions, along with intricate, high-art pieces with detailed motifs and lavish designs.
Top celebrities wearing Dior jewelry include Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Debicki, Anya Taylor-Joy, Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, Michelle Yeoh, Yuna Kim, Rosamund Pike, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, and Bella Hadid.
10. David Yurman
Sculptural jewelry specialist David Yurman and his wife, Sybil Kleinrock, founded David Yurman in 1980, a year after they married. With David’s expertise in art and Sybil’s art and design work, they developed high-end jewelry designs that captivated jewelry fans across the United States.
Offering big and luxurious jewelry pieces, the brand combines symmetrical, detailed designs with artsy and cutting-edge, modern styles, making them luxurious and unique.
David Yurman’s use of big bold chains, rope motifs, and detailed symmetricals on bands, bracelets, necklaces, and other accessories bears industrial and modern art influences in their composition. The use of colorful gems with textured and colored gold, platinum, and silver is elegant and clean-looking.
Celebrities who wear this fine brand include Michael B. Jordan, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Shawn Mendes, Scarlett Johansson, Henry Golding, Lila Moss, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Iris Law, and Eiza González.
11. Fabergé
Gustav Fabergé founded this opulent brand in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Fabergé is the name for lavish jewelry designs incorporating rich older European jewelry motifs, patterns, and embellishments, with modern styles.
Gustav travelled and educated himself in design, art, and jewelry making. He studied across Germany, France, and Britain with the masters of the craft and timeless art and design in the 1800s.
His early work on Imperial Easter eggs, royal-style decorations, and intricate, patterned heirloom jewelry became renowned by royalty. Alexander III and his family commissioned his early works. They soon expanded in Europe, from London and Paris, to create new boutiques that answered the demand for their exquisitely designed pieces.
Their more recent works reflect older European and Russian crests and patterns, including those from past Easter eggs, into modern works of art. Many of their luxury pieces use very colorful gems, lovely textured designs, and intricate, patterned compositions.
Alexander III, Michael Jackson, The British Royal Family, Shania Twain, Lola Petticrew, Ashanti, Vanessa Williams, and Georgia Buckland are among the brand’s wearers.
12. Chanel
French fashion designer and entrepreneur Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel founded this iconic fashion brand in 1909. She became an icon for casual and sportsy styles of dresses. She developed these modern designs and gained notoriety for her bold and timeless fashion. When she finally opened her boutique in 1921 in a building she bought at 31 rue Cambon in Paris, she expanded into jewelry, handbags, and fragrances as well.
Chanel’s jewelry design grew from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles of her era, with decadent jewels. The Chanel collections today are steeped in modern styles, but use these influences to create heavily patterned and lavish luxury jewelry. Chanel also excels in minimalist and elegantly-composed designage.
Beyonce, Celine Dione, Claudia Schiffer, Rihanna, Blake Lively, Kirsten Stewart, Elle Fanning, Rose Huntington-Whiteley, Keira Knightley, Margot Robbie, Pharrell, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, and Lily Rose Depp are just some of the high-profile Chanel wearers.
13. H. Stern
Hans Stern founded his own jewelry company in 1945 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started dealing in precious stones and later became a designer.
The brand soon became a jewelry giant for its unconventional designs, artistic shapes and patterns, and the use of colorful, high-quality gemstones. many ofn these reflected Brazilian works of art and modern influences that were creeping in. Hans introduced colorful gems such as aquamarine, citrine, tourmaline and amethyst into the Brazilian and South American markets.
In the 1990’s, Han’s eldest son restructured the company and updated and upgraded many of its aspects, including fashion trends and modern styles. The company has since collaborated with musician Carlinhos Brown, artist Anna Bella Geiger, style icon Diane von Fürstenberg, architect Oscar Niemeyer, and the Grupo Corpo dance company in Brazil. They also presented a collection of rings inspired by Alice in Wonderland.
Eva Longoria, Rihanna, Diane Kruger, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Lilly Collins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Catherine Deneuve, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Catherine Zeta-Jones are some of the celebrities who wear this awesome brand.
14. Hermès
Thierry Hermès created his namesake high-end fashion brand in Paris, France. It used to be a luxury brand for high-end equestrians, focusing on saddle and harness making. They soon became one of the top luxury goods companies in Europe, then the world.
The brand started introducing jewelry among its luxury goods when Robert Dumas, Thierry’s son-in-law, took over after his death in 1951. He created one of their first jewelry offerings, the Chaîne d’ancre bracelet in 1938, based on its emblem.
In 2018, designer Pierre Hardy created a brand new collection based on their very first jewelry piece.
Hermès’ initial jewelry offerings based their designs on luxury equestrian accessories. Their original trade in equestrian and water sports provided key designs. It included styles used in bucklery, such as silver and leather, along with typical motifs such as chains, belts, studs, and other related designs.
Today, their jewelry division continues to craft simple and opulent luxury jewelry that retains some of the details of these classic accessories, but now uses contemporary and even avant-garde pieces created in the luxurious image of the brand.
Kris, Kyle, Kourtney, and Kim Kardashian are fans and wearers of the jewelry brand, as are Emma Watson, Victoria Beckham, Blake Lively, and Rachel McAdams.
15. Tiffany & Co.
Charles Lewis Tiffany founded Tiffany & Co. in 1837. Their building stands tall on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan as an institution of elegant, luxury sterling silver and diamond jewelry. The company pioneered the use of retail catalogs to advertise, market, and sell its offerings.
Tiffany also expanded to sell luxury product lines for watches, porcelain, crystal, stationery, haute couture fragrance and personal accessories, and leather goods.
The company produces some of the finest high-end jewelry in the world. Early designs carried influences from the Victorian, Edwardian, and Art Nouveau eras in their early days.
Over the years, they incorporated various modern and contemporary styles. Chains, pave rings, nature motifs, intricate patterns, rich textures, and high-quality gemstones continue to mesh with other modern art and designs that keep them on top of their game.
Tiffany and Co. is also known for popularizing Tanzanite, a rare moisite gemstone from Tanzania, through their executive chairman, Henry B. Platt, in 1968.
Celebrity wearers and collaborators include Lady Gaga, Kendall Jenner, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Curtis Kulig, and Anya Taylor-Joy. They also worked with Spotify in May 2018, and released a cover of the song “Moon River” with Elle Fanning and rapper A$AP Ferg.
Now I know there are lots of designers aside from Hermes and Channel. Thank you for making this informative article