This year’s exquisite display of art, design, and fashion at the annual Met Gala in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City focuses on the theme “Costume Art”. The most stunning fashion displays and most beautiful Met Gala celebrity jewelry comprise our curated list of top-notch celebrity jewelry, matching their beautiful, lavish, and otherworldly outfits.
True to our jewelry trends for 2026 list, many of the celebrities are in the know. They graced the Met’s halls, wearing jewelry that’s hot and happening and very now.
1. SZA’s Indian-Inspired Yellow Gold Floral Outfit
Dressed to the nines was SZA, looking so sun goddess-like. She wore a blazing hot, yellow gold Indian floral evening ball gown with a V-neckline and a tiered, heavily layered skirt. It comes adorned with beautiful accents and accessories, with shells, gold appliqués, red and green crystals, and other sparkling elements.
Adorned with meticulously crafted Indian-style face and arm jewelry, SZA’s body ensemble featured gold everywhere. It paired wonderfully with shells, various colorful crystals and gems, bracelets, dangling face jewelry with beads, and armbands, layered in a dazzling array.
The various sun and summer palettes are magnificent, too. Combining red, yellow orange, white, cream, green, and light green, arranged in gorgeous patterns with a thick tiered ball gown skirt works like a charm.
2. Rihanna in Maison Margela
The dazzling silver and dark silver hues on our pop R&B goddess, Queen Rihanna, commanded the Met Gala hall’s attention. She had on some of the most beautiful Met Gala celebrity jewelry that night.
Her gorgeous monochromatic dark silver outfit and silver and platinum jewelry exude premium haute couture with slight industrial themes. Crowned on her is a lovely, dainty royal Roman-style headpiece, complemented by dark and light makeup shades.
Her bodice comes adorned with thick layers of various jewelry. It has floral motifs, pearls, crystals, diamonds, and various gnarly and beautiful patterns. It’s an armor of jewelry set to stun and to war against inferior fashion. It comes with color palettes in small amounts of brown, dark brown, olive green, black, gold, and copper.
Her bodice comes en-haloed with a layered chrome metal-like fabric that leads to the portal of her lovely kingdom. Her straight-cut skirt dazzles with movement, with light-altering properties. Breathtaking and bodacious!
Her lovely fingers feature three powerful royal rings in increasing size.
An oval cut diamond ring set in silver, white gold, or platinum appears on the right-hand ring finger. There’s also a medium-sized round cut diamond ring with two halo layers of small and large diamonds on the forefinger.
Her left hand features the biggest ring. The ring had a central round cut diamond, surrounded by two halos of smaller diamonds, completing her sparkling diamond and silver ensemble.
3. Beyoncé’s Silver Skeleton Ribcage Outfit and Champagne+Grey Fur Train
Another R&B (and also Country!) Queen made a grand entrance at the Met. Queen Beyoncé looked super dazzling and commanding, with a skeleton-themed outfit.
Her outfit features bone patterns in striking ribcage motifs of silver and diamonds. She wore a Teotihuacan-inspired silver crown headpiece with outward spurs. The platinum or white gold set circle earrings with diamonds add to the headgear, creating a goddess look.
Meanwhile, the thick and layered fur-like coat and train combine champagne inner layers with enthralling grey and black undertones. Looking like wolfskin fur, it adds an otherworldly royal vibe that remains unmatched.
Three or 4 minimal colors and an elegant netherworld Queen composition with silver, platinum, and diamonds as accents? A big yes.
4. Ciara’s Curvy Golden Evening Dress and Upright Shards Headdress
Singer-songwriter and hot dance maven Ciara‘s gold theme costume art evening dress amazed the Met Gala as well.
Silver, gold, and black-hued jagged upright shards make her tall Cleopatra headpiece crown. Her golden classic 60s shades, double hexagonal and diamond-studded earring sets, and the thick gold neck bangle piece outshone everyone.
Her lovely hands feature golden diamond rings, bangles, clasps, and bracelets. These create royal accents that are consistent with the gold Pharaoh Queen outfit.
More gold spirals toward her bodice in the form of thin descending spirals. They accent her sleeveless champagne evening dress, adorned with layers and layers of various crystals and beads. They dot the shapely dress with palettes of light blue, dark blue, silver, white, and yellow, flowing down the tapered skirt with a slight mermaid silhouette.
5. John Imah’s Layered Cream Suit and Heavy Gold Layers
As we’ve mentioned previously, gold stays sharp in the fashion world, whether it’s pop or high fashion haute couture.
SpreeAI fashion tech king John Imah blazed through the halls of the Met Gala with burning intensity and a suave chill, adorned in crisp layers of cream and generous layers of various gold hues in mini bars, creating a hypnotizing array on his undershirt opening, the thick edges of his overcoat, and his right-hand glove.
The rest of his stately suit has incredible accents: a gold shark fin and lifesaver pin set, a round diamond cluster collar button, and massive yellow gold whole ear half-moon pieces studded with diamonds.
6. A’ja Wilson’s Minimalist Gold and Copper-Chrome Outfit
Las Vegas Aces WNBA Star A’ja Wilson crossed the otherworldly Met Gala portal in a very elegant and minimalist style. Her copper-chrome sleeveless and strapless evening dress has a lovely metallic texture, with an off-the-shoulder long drape sides and a seamless bodice to a floor-hemline skirt.
Gold is again a major element in her look, from her pixie-cut gold hair and layers upon layers of gold choker necklaces, with a bottom layer necklace with a pearl bead and diamond pendant.
Her lovely hands and arms are gold-colored, creating lovely contrasts to her long, champagne pink nails and gold and silver rings.
She has a pear-shaped one on her right pinky and a cushion-cut triple-gold banded one on the right ring finger. Her left pinky featured an elongated diamond-shaped ring paired with a rectangle-circle-rectangle diamond ring on the left ring finger.
7. Gabrielle Union-Wade in Michael Kors and Tiffany & Co.
We’ve featured the lovely Gabrielle Union-Wade on our website a few times, wearing some world-class jewelry before. We do it again, as we got a glimpse of her multi-tiered inverted tiara necklace in bright yellow gold with small diamond accents.
She paired her exclusive Tiffany & Co. piece with 2 massive diamond rings on platinum, silver, or white gold. One on her right ring finger and another on her left forefinger, creating a dazzling trio of sparklers. They perfectly matched the brown Michael Kors semi-see-through dress adorned with small crystals and a Chapel train.
8. Venus Williams in Black Evening Dress and Swarovski Crystals
Gorgeous and all-out elegant, layered necklace pieces seem to be a running theme in the Met Gala 2026. Venus Williams joins in, cascading the halls of the event in a luxurious sleeveless black dress with a mermaid silhouette and a chapel train.
Her Swarovski multi-tier necklace features ornate motifs, and shoulder lines adorned with more dazzling Swarovski embellishments, creating a closed, round neck enclosure full of joyous sparkles. It extends to her dress straps, with two long, dangling necklaces below full of that Swarovski trademark glam.
9. Lisa’s All-White Sparkling Dress and Jewelry Adorned Extra Arms
Like a Hindu winter goddess, Lisa of Blackpink mesmerized everyone as she commanded the halls of the Met.
Seductive in white, she wore a closed-neck long-sleeved semi-see-through tulle and glitter-sequin dress. Those extra arms, gracefully raised in victory, came adorned with silver rings and artfully coiled bracelets, adorned with small, round-cut diamonds.
Her elongated earrings are white gold or platinum, designed with sapphire accents. She also wore a patterned necklace with sapphire accents and a large, round, deep blue sapphire pendant, hypnotizing the crowd with her beautiful eyes and face locked in a lovely gaze at you.
10. Gracie Abrams in Chanel
Singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams wore Chanel at the Met Gala; her enthralling beauty was even made more stylish with its multi-colored gemstones and crystals accenting her light gold and champagne dress with silver accents.
As mentioned in our jewelry trends guide, multi-colored gemstones and crystals are hot right now.
Gracie and her Chanel evening dress are a Gustav Klimt masterpiece in real life. It has gorgeous straps and off-the-shoulder edges adorned with beautifully arranged stones and crystals. The color palettes of red, blue, purple, white, silver, gold, and green are mesmerizing.
These colors and textures layer over her extended corset-like bodice with dangles and gold chains. Her pleated champagne skirt extends to a Court train.
11. Jeremy Pope’s Vivienne Westwood Beaded Suit
Actor and singer Jeremy Pope made a grand entrance at the Met, in a black-based suit clad in pearls of various tones and hues. Various pearls created a buff and manly body graphic, using various color palettes of cream, yellow, gold, brown, white, copper, and silver.
Vivienne Westwood’s stylish use of this maelstrom of lovely, earthy autumn and fall colors in a collage ensemble creates impeccable details. The use of non-traditional gems in a suit makes it one of the most unique Met Gala men’s wear with super detailed art.
12. Sabrina Carpenter in Classic Dior
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter made her presence known at the Met Gala halls, dressed in classic Dior.
The unique dress is a nod to the 1920’s flapper style, made of rolls of camera film draped over the bodice. It has a sleeveless halter top neckline that leads to a train of old film. It even has a bow tie belt accent. Then, it reveals a black tulle lace skirt undergarment decorated with white dot motifs.
Her classic flapper chic headgear is an amazing ensemble of pear-shaped and 4-pointed diamonds dangling from round pendants with her name emblazoned on each. She paired it with adorable dangle earrings with pear diamond ends.
13. Irina Shayk’s Minimalist Jewelry Top and Black Skirt
Yes, you can wear your jewelry alone as your main dress. Everything is possible in the world of the Met Gala.
Irina‘s ultra-minimalist jewelry dress features designer watches and strap chokers of silver, a platinum dog tag, a golden chain with 3 chunky gold and diamond ring pendants, gold and silver straps, five gold and platinum bands decked in diamonds as the bodice, and two gold and silver watches on each arm serving as fashionable armbands.
Oh, and her skirt is a plain black skirt crested on her hips with a mermaid silhouette with a sweep train.
14. Amanda Seyfried, Pretty in Pink
The lovely Amanda Seyfried was pretty in pink. Her simple but elegant, sleeveless, strapless pink gown featured a low waist with a thick, layered, and pleated skirt with a Chapel train.
To perfectly complement her gorgeous look, she wore a beautiful serrated-edged necklace of yellow gold with big, blue-green emerald-cut emeralds and small cushion-cut green gemstone accents. She also had abstract-shaped earrings with diamonds and light blue gemstones.
The color palettes look amazing, creating complementary and contrasting color accents.
15. Blake Lively in Light Cream Yellow, Violet, and Silver
It won’t be complete if the gorgeous Blake Lively isn’t at the Met Gala this year. She wore a sleeveless halter top ball gown in light cream yellow with light violet, pink, and orange accents on its thick Royal train. Her sides had pretty silver and light violet embellishments.
Her matching jewelry was just as amazing. She wore dangle earrings with pink oval and violet emerald cut diamonds, with pear-shaped ends.
Blake’s right hand features a large violet gemstone with small diamonds in the middle, and a large rectangular light brown stone. Her left hand has three smaller rings with amber and gold colors.
16. Camila Mendes in Deep Burgundy
Yes, deep red, crimson, or burgundy looks beautiful on Camila Mendes. Her outfit has see-through sections interspersed with deep, layered burgundy drapery.
The one-shoulder cap sleeve, square neckline, and shoulder-draped Watteau train are very stylish. The diagonal pleated style of the dress flows to its floor hemline. However, the earrings with deep red rubies with a halo of diamonds and a tiara of Art Deco style with rose gold and medium ruby centers make her even more gorgeous.
17. EJAE Clad in Swarovski
As seen on other stars, jewelry can be your outfit. K-pop star EJAE looks enthralling in Swarovski crystals in a silver sparkling Art Deco-inspired evening dress.
Wonder at the closed-neck halter top with large stones, and a smaller-crystal-adorned and layered bodice. Her waistline comes bedecked again in bigger stones. Then her trumpet silhouette and sheath skirt continue the lovely patterns.
Her face looks even more divine with those butterfly and flower set head accents in beautiful silver and Swarovski sparklers.
18. Isha Ambani’s Jewelry Bodice Set
Talk about super opulence!
Another case of literally wearing your jewelry as the main dress or main part of the dress is in billionaire heir-businesswoman Isha Ambani‘s gorgeous, Indian-fusion dress. It features draped over light silver and gold tulle fabrics with gold embellishments, with a high halo framing her gorgeous face.
She also had a mango in a royal net holder, right next to her left hand’s massive 4-sided diamond-shaped diamond ring. Her right hand forefinger also has a massive, round-cut diamond ring with a halo of smaller diamonds.
But back to her seductive, all-jewelry half-bodice! It’s simply enthralling, with emerald-cut green gemstones, various pear and marquise-cut diamonds in glorious patterns.
Her lovely, 4-tier necklace with huge round-cut diamonds and a massive round-cut green emerald is hypnotizing and sexy at the same time. They pair quite well with her long dangle earrings bedecked in more large diamonds.
19. Alysia Liu in Red Louis Vitton
Super adorable Olympic figure skater Alysia Liu made her Met Gala debut in spectacular fashion. Her beautiful smile, two-toned hair, and beautiful red Louis Vuitton dress with a thick ruffled skirt made it oh so memorable.
Her jewelry for the night was also elegant and iconic.
She has a white gold, silver, or platinum choker adorned with small diamonds. It has a small center ruby and a large pear-shaped pendant ruby with a halo of small diamonds. Each hand also features a diamond ring set in platinum.
Now that’s how you make your Met Gala debut!
20. Sam Smith in an Elegant Black Dress and Black Accessories
Last but not least is the indomitable Sam Smith, who made sure you would remember their grand entrance clad in a thick black dress with a narrow V-neck and long flared sleeves. It had marvelous silver linings and motifs, plus black-on-black crystals to add elegant textures all over.
Their dress leads to a mermaid silhouette and a floor hemline sprawl with a sweep train.
Sam kept the jewelry simple, sexy, elegant, and all-black as well. The elongated fine lines of each blade-like piece carried small diamonds in a vertical stack. Then, as if an undeclared running theme, Sam also had a multi-tiered all-black necklace, perhaps in black metal, gold, or silver, with large black gemstones in the patterns.
Sam capped off the whole look with an all-black flapper headgear with a three-pronged, long vertical feather motif.
Yes!!! super gorgeous collection, keep it up TWS!