The Most Iconic Diamond Jewelry Looks from Past Venice Film Festivals
The Venice Film Festival is one of the world’s most prestigious culture exhibitions in the world, exploring themes of politics and contemporary social issues through the arts. At large, the Venice Biennale features work across architecture, dance and music. Drawing stars from across the globe who will gather to promote and raise awareness for international cinema in all its forms, the 8st annual event promises to bring with it an excess of natural diamond jewelry and high fashion. To set the mood for the glamour they’ll likely be displaying, take a look back at some of the finest natural diamond jewelry from past years’ festivals.
Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney wore a stunning natural diamond necklace from Bulgari to attend Giorgio Armani’s “One Night In Venice” Armani Prive fashion show in 2023, styled by Molly Dickson.
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh captured everyone’s attention on the red carpet premiere for Don’t Worry Darling in a shimming sheer black off-the-shoulder gown from Valentino’s Fall/Winter 2022 Couture collection. With help from stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray, Pugh accessorized with Tiffany & Co. natural diamond jewels, including floral studs, a diamond lighting-bolt earring in her flat piercing, a gold and diamond cuff on her helix, a sparkling hoop in her septum, and a dazzling diamond necklace.
Ana de Armas
The Venice Film Festival hosted the premiere of Blonde in 2022. Lead actress Ana de Armas received a 14-minute standing ovation for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe. Wearing a plunging pink Louis Vuitton gown for the occasion, de Armas’ intricate natural diamond High Jewelry Messika collar deserved equal applause.
Monica Bellucci
Italian goddess Monica Bellucci knows her way around natural diamonds. In one of her most dramatic diamond jewelry moments to date, the actress attended the 2022 Venice Film Festival wearing a black Dolce & Gabbana gown with a gob smacking Cartier necklace with two huge pear-shaped diamonds hanging from two stands of even more diamonds.
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore served as the president of the 2022 jury and made sure to show up and show out. Attending the Tar premiere, the Oscar-winning actress adorned a black velvet column gown from Armani Privé’s Fall/Winter 2022 Couture collection, finishing off her ensemble with natural diamond Cartier Art Deco-inspired Sixième Sens High Jewelry platinum and diamond drop earrings and necklace.
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz attended the premiere for her film L’Immensità in a Chanel gown from the Fall/Winter 2022 Couture collection with Chanel High Jewelry, including butterfly wing diamond earrings and an Art Deco-inspired diamond necklace.
Chloë Sevigny
Chloë Sevigny attended the premiere of her film Bones & All in 2022, wearing a black cutout Gucci dress from the Resort 2023 collection. She loaded on gold and natural diamond Bulgari Serpenti jewels with earrings, a wrap necklace, bracelet and Serpenti ring.
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde shined in a sunny yellow custom Gucci gown at the premiere of her film Don’t Worry Darling. Styled by Karla Welch, the actor-turned-auteur blinged up her ensemble in white gold and natural diamond pieces from Gucci High Jewelry’s Hortus Deliciarum Collection, including a dazzling necklace, and drop earrings.
Jodie Turner-Smith
Jodie Turner-Smith owned the Venice Film Festival red carpet in 2022, with a myriad of stellar natural diamond jewelry moments. For her first time attending the festival, Turner-Smith walked the red carpet for her film White Noise in a black Gucci gown and the Italian label’s High Jewelry, including layered necklaces in white gold, tsavorites, and diamonds.
Styled by Wayman and Micah, the actress next wore a custom cerulean gown from Harbison Studio’s Resort 2023 collection, topped off with Bulgari jewels including a choker with a yellow diamond pendant, huge diamond stud earrings, a diamond chain bracelet, and a whopper of a pinky ring over her black opera gloves.
She stepped out for another appearance on the festival’s red carpet in a colorful Christopher John Rogers’ gown from the Pre-Fall 2022 collection. She teamed her look with layered jeweled chokers and matching drop earrings from Bulgari.
Zendaya
Zendaya attended the premiere of Dune, wearing a wet-look custom Balmain gown and accessorized with a jaw-dropping Bulgari Serpenti necklace from the Magnifica High Jewelry collection, featuring loads of natural diamonds and a 93-carat, cabochon-cut Colombian emerald at its center.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Channeling her role from Last Night in Soho, Anya Taylor-Joy exhibited Old Hollywood excellence on the 2021 Venice Film Festival red carpet. Styled by Law Roach, her look comprised of a custom hot pink Dior gown and an extravagant Tiffany & Co. collar with natural diamond leaves.
Jessica Chastain
Attending the premiere for their mini-series Scenes from a Marriage, Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac definitely turned heads on the red carpet. Chastain opted for a custom red Versace gown with Chopard diamond jewelry, including a necklace from the Haute Joaillerie collection and a ring from the Temptations collection.
Lady Gaga
No one does a dramatic entrance quite like Lady Gaga. Attending the premiere for A Star is Born, the star walked the red carpet looking like a fairytale princess in a custom Valentino gown and Chopard diamond pear-shaped drop earrings
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett went for an elaborate feathered gown for the premiere of A Star is Born in 2018. To accessorize her black velvet Giorgio Armani dress, she also wore a set of beautiful Chopard diamond chandelier earrings.
Zoë Kravitz
When it comes to red carpet appearances, Zoë Kravitz can do no wrong. Looking back on her 2014 Venice Film Festival jewelry and attire, she opted for a daring red dress from Armani alongside a statement diamond cuff bracelet and an array of diamond cluster earrings.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow attended the Contagion premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, wearing a blush pink Prada dress and Bulgari diamond chandelier earrings.
Catherine Deneuve
Iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve arrived at the 2010 Venice Film Festival as fabulous as ever in a black chiffon asymmetrical dress with a diamond chain Pomellato Catene necklace and matching bracelet.
Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer attended the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival in 2008, showing off some sparkling arm candy. The supermodel wore a limited edition timepiece from an Alberta Ferretti and Chopard collaboration, dubbed WatchCouture. A silky peach ribbon wrapped around her wrist with a natural diamond face and was valued at 300,000 Euros in 2008, and was auctioned during the amfAR party at the following Golden Globe Awards to raise money for AIDS research.
Scarlett Johansson
In 2006, Scarlett Johansson embodied 1940s beauty from the golden age of Hollywood at the Venice Film Festival premiere of The Black Dahlia. The star wore a silk vintage-style gown with her voluminous blonde curls swept back with a natural diamond butterfly-shaped Chopard headpiece.
Monica Bellucci
Monica Bellucci wore a spectacular Cartier diamond necklace with a rich history to the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Later worn by Bridget Moynahan to the 2006 Met Gala, the “Indian” diamond necklace previously belonged to Ganna Walska and Doris Duke. The actress wore a piece featuring 12 large Mughal-style suspended diamonds set in a contemporary-style necklace, with each large stone surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds, dangling from a string of even more diamonds. Before her trip down the red carpet, Bellucci wore huge drop diamond earrings from the parure.
Sophia Loren
Once a little-known Italian actress, Sophia Loren’s 1958 Venice Film Festival diamond jewelry and attire caught everyones eye. Wearing a white gown and stunning diamond collar, she went on to win Best Actress for her portrayal of a gangster’s widow in the drama The Black Orchid.
