Met Gala 2023 was a culmination of fashion, beauty and design. Most celebrities chose to pay homage to the late Karl Lagerfeld with their choice of clothing. However, the jewellery at the Met did not take the back seat.
Many stars adorned stunning pieces, for example, Dua Lipa’s Tiffany & Co.’s new Legendary Diamond necklace or Rihanna’s Bulgari’s High Jewelry necklace. However, the show stopper of that night and one that caught the audience’s attention is the Sotheby’s Bulgari Laguna Blu Diamond, worn by Priyanka Chopra.
The Diamond at the Met Gala 2023
The 11.16-carat blue diamond is the largest Bulgari blue diamond to be offered for sale at Sotheby's, and its estimated value is over $25 million at Sotheby’s’ Geneva Luxury Week in May.
Priyanka Chopra wore the necklace before the auction date to debut the long-unseen piece. The Bulgari Global Ambassador wore a black and white Valentino gown simply to highlight the blue diamond necklace purposefully.
Diamond with a history
The diamond is pear-shaped of 11.16 carat and was created by a Roman Jeweller and initially set into a ring for a private client who was a European collector and has been unseen ever since. The Met Gala would mark the first time it has been seen in public in 40 years.
It had been set into a white diamond-studded platinum necklace and the shape of the necklace, with its interlocking baguette and pave diamonds set in platinum, is inspired by the bay laurel wreaths worn by Greco-Roman emperors.
The bright cornflower blue colour of the stone is said to represent the beautiful Roman sky.
Olivier Wagner, Head of Jewellery at Sotheby’s Geneva, describes the diamond as "an extraordinary gem in every way" that is "bound to become the object of any collector's dream".
The Value of the Stone
Has received the highest grading for a blue diamond by the Gemological Institute of America and is said to be the most valuable gem ever to be sold by Bulgari.
Fewer than 10 fancy vivid blue diamonds weighing over 10 carats have come up for auction anywhere in the world during the past half-century, but four of these were sold by Sotheby’s.
With the current technology, diamond cutting can enhance beauty by exposing the facets of a diamond to its advantage. However, this is the case with this rare diamond, it is an unmodified stone with a high grading which makes its clarity and the stone of even higher value.
The blue diamond is one of the rarest of the fancy-coloured diamonds. Finding any coloured diamond weighing over 10 carats is considered almost miraculous by experts which makes this stone a true treasure.
Accounting for 0.1% of the world’s colour diamonds, blue diamonds rank as one of the rarest coloured diamonds to exist. Hence a popular collector diamond attracts investors' and diamond enthusiasts' attention, nonetheless.
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Other Stunning Jewellery Pieces at the Met Gala
Dua Lipa in Tiffany & Co.'s Legendary diamond necklace, which is over 100 carats. As one of the co-hosts of tonight’s event, she had to deliver a glamorous look.
She wore a white and black tweed ballgown from Chanel that complimented The white Legendary diamond that made homage to the shape of the iconic yellow Tiffany diamond via its near-identical cushion cut.
The shape of the iconic yellow Tiffany diamond via its near-identical cushion cut.
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The singer and entrepreneur were fashionably late to this year's event but made a grand entrance with her choice of jewels. Rihanna in Bulgari’s High Jewelry necklace in platinum, complete with five pear diamonds, 118 Akoya cultured pearls, seven pear diamonds, 109 round diamonds, 561 fancy shape diamonds, and pavé-set diamonds
Michelle Yeoh constantly brings in her beautiful gowns and statement jewellery this time stunned us in Cartier’s [Sur]naturel High Jewelry transformable necklace and earrings, and an Étourdissant Cartier High Jewelry ring made of 18-karat white gold, diamonds, and onyx.
The men brought in their own fierce game of outstanding jewellery to the Met. Usher in an 8-carat white diamond brooch by Lorraine Schwartz, as well as a pearl and white diamond ring.
Remi Malek in Cartier’s Tradition Jabot pin, a Cartier Tank Louis watch, cufflinks, and an 18-karat white gold ring with diamonds and rubies
Pete Davidson in De Beers's diamond pendant set, diamond band, and diamond signet ring.
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