The Best Jewelry at the Venice Film Festival Jewelry

The Venice Film Festival may honor movies, but its nearly two weeks of premieres, parties, and waterborne arrivals are also an opportunity for serious jewelry watching. This year, stars are turning out in pieces from houses including Cartier, Bulgari, Chopard, and Chanel. There have been cascades of diamonds, sculptural collars, colorful gemstones, animal-inspired pieces, and more. With Venice’s unusually elegant backdrop and slightly more relaxed atmosphere, the festival also offers a preview of what to expect when awards season kicks off.

Here are a few Galerie favorites from Venice’s red carpet.

1. Penelope Cruz | Chanel Fine Jewelry

For the Bunker premiere, Penélope Cruz paired her red gown with a striking pair of diamond earrings from Chanel High Jewelry. Celestial-inspired imagery is deeply rooted in the house’s history: Gabrielle Chanel’s groundbreaking “Bijoux de Diamants” collection included stars, comets, moons, and suns among its defining motifs. More than 90 years later, the comet remains an icon of Chanel Fine Jewelry.

2. Laura Dern | Cartier High Jewelry Tillan Necklace & Earrings

Laura Dern paired her pink Prada dress with this colored-stone, design-forward Cartier set featuring rubellites, tsavorites, garnets, and diamonds. The colors rang true on opening night. Inspired by the spiky flowers of the pink quill plant, Dern’s ornaments come from the 2026 “Le Chœur des Pierres” collection.

3. Suki Waterhouse | Chopard Haute Joaillerie Earrings

Suki Waterhouse opted for color with a pair of earrings combining pear-shaped fancy-color diamonds with white diamonds in 18-karat gold. The mix of cuts and sunny yellow stones gave the earrings an almost floral quality, and offered a bright departure from all-white.

4. Aju Makita | Louis Vuitton High Jewelry

For the premiere of Look Back, Japanese actress Aju Makita complemented a black lace Louis Vuitton gown that spotlighted the house’s renowned savoir-faire with a graphic trio of LV’s High Jewelry. The standout was the Metamorphosis bracelet, a broad design composed of closely spaced rows of diamonds that converge into a series of sharp, stacked forms around its central stone.

5. Georgina Rodríguez | Pasquale Bruni High Jewelry

For the premiere of Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?, Georgina Rodríguez wore Pasquale Bruni’s Giardini Segreti Couture necklace, a diamond floral design that builds its silhouette from repeating leaf forms. Rodríguez paired it with Rosina earrings and rings, along with Giardini Segreti and Aleluiá pinky rings, also in white gold and diamonds.

6. Caroline Scheufele | Chopard Haute Joaillerie Pearl Necklace

Chopard Co-President and Artistic Director Caroline Scheufele made one of the more memorable jewelry statements in Venice with an extraordinarily long strand of dramatic pearls. The necklace fell in a generous frontal sweep, allowing the abundance and soft luster of the gems to provide the impact. It was an especially fitting choice for Scheufele, whose approach to Chopard High Jewelry favors scale, exceptional stones, and pieces designed to make their presence felt.

7. Maggie Gyllenhaal | Bulgari

Jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal turned to one of Bulgari’s most enduring motifs, wearing a Serpenti High Jewelry necklace in pink gold, black onyx, and diamonds. The dark onyx gives the coiling serpent a particularly graphic quality, sharply defining its scales amid the diamonds. Serpenti has been part of Bulgari’s design vocabulary since the mid-20th century, when the house first translated the snake into wraparound form, and has since evolved through combinations of gold, color, and gemstones.