Forever Flawless: Beyoncé’s 30 Best Diamond Moments
She’s co-chairing the 2026 Met Gala, but Beyoncé’s been fashion royalty for years. Here are the natural diamonds that prove it.
Beyoncé attends the Atlantis The Royal Grand Reveal Weekend on January 21, 2023. (Getty Images)
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is known by many names – Sasha Fierce, Queen Bey, Miss Carter, Yoncé, a Child of Destiny, and a bona fide diamond diva. The record-breaking music legend is known to wear the most resplendent, jaw-dropping jewelry from Lorraine Schwartz, Messika, and Tiffany & Co.
A foremost entertainer since her early days and rise to fame as a member of Destiny’s Child, the multi-hyphenate has gone on to achieve mega-fame and icon status, even wearing some of the most rare and legendary stones in the world, like the Tiffany Diamond and the Empire Diamond.
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With the 2026 Met Gala taking place on the first Monday of May, a fresh set of co-chairs and new host committee members will gather in New York City for fashion’s biggest night. This year, Beyoncé will serve as co-chair alongside Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour. As the most decorated artist in Grammy history, Beyoncé has attended the Met Gala seven times, with this year marking her first appearance in a decade.
This year, the Gala will debut the exhibition, “Costume Art,” which will explore the juxtaposition between garments and works of art, along with “the complex interplay between artistic representations of the body and fashion as an embodied art form,” according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Gala dress code will be “Fashion Is Art,” inviting its esteemed guests to express their unique relationship to fashion as an art form and to celebrate depictions of the dressed body throughout history.
If fashion is art, consider this Beyoncé’s diamond masterpiece: her 30 best jewelry moments spanning a 30-year career.
Beyoncé Wore Messika’s Fragments of Time High Jewelry Necklace to the Louis Vuitton Fashion Show
Sporting a Canadian tuxedo, Beyoncé adorned the Messika Fragments of Time diamond lasso wrap necklace to attend the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.
First presented at Messika’s High Jewelry runway show during Paris Fashion Week in September, the jewel features a staggering 36-carat yellow diamond alongside an incomparable 33-carat white diamond, dangling from an intertwined diamond setting. Altogether, the jewel features 232 stones, totaling 129 carats.
Beyoncé Wore Brilliant Earth’s Natural Diamond Bee Bolo Tie On the 2025 Cowboy Carter Tour
Throughout her Cowboy Carter tour, the singer added her signature glamorous touch to the diamond bolo tie. After releasing her landmark country crossover album, Act II: Cowboy Carter, she adopted a myriad of western jewelry trends, adding an abundance of natural diamonds to the look.
During her Chicago performance at Soldier Field, she sported a bespoke Loewe metallic look, teamed with a custom natural diamond bolo tie from Brilliant Earth. The one-of-a-kind jewel features a crown-wearing bumble bee, set in repurposed 18-karat yellow gold, with a 14.46-carat natural black diamond, surrounded by 1,046 pavé diamonds, totaling 5.7 carats.
Brilliant Earth’s Chief Brand Officer, Pam Catlett, said in a press release, “Beyoncé is a treasure, and so is this pendant.” She went on to say, “Our extraordinary design team channeled her transformative artistry into a piece that celebrates her cultural impact and our craftsmanship. It is an honor and a delight for our brand to celebrate Beyoncé’s iconic artistry and her unrelenting and inspiring commitment to self-expression.”
Beyoncé Wore a Lorraine Schwartz Pear-Shaped Diamond Bolo Tie On the 2025 Cowboy Carter Tour
During her gigs in Los Angeles and Paris, the recording artist donned a massive diamond bolo tie necklace from her go-to jewelry designer, Lorraine Schwartz. Teamed with matching earrings, the necklace featured a thick gold wire chain in the classic slider bolo tie silhouette with two enormous bezel-set pear-shaped diamonds in the center and two more dangling at the ends.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Earrings to the 2025 Grammy Awards
As the most decorated musical artist in all of Grammy history, Bey added a few more notches to her belt, winning the coveted Album of the Year award for Cowboy Carter. The only award that had long eluded her, the win made Beyoncé the first Black woman to win Album of the Year since Lauryn Hill in 1999 at the 2025 Grammys. “It’s very surreal,” she told ET backstage. “It’s been 25 years of working really hard and trying my best to keep growing and keep opening up doors. I was just very honored.”
The singer wore custom Lorraine Schwartz natural pearl and cognac diamond drop earrings, including a pair of 50-carat pear-shaped diamonds.
Beyoncé Showed Off Her Engagement Ring Update at the 2024 Mufasa Premiere
Beyoncé walked the red carpet at the LA premiere of Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King in December 2024 to support her daughter, Blue Ivy. The songstress wore a metallic Balmain gown, but her luminescent three-stone diamond engagement ring is what caught everyone’s eye. The sculptural sparkler features an elongated emerald-cut diamond, sandwiched between two trapezoid side stones in a gold setting. It remains unclear whether it’s a replacement ring or her original stone has been recut and set with additional diamonds.
Beyoncé Wore The De Beers Diamond Metamorphosis Necklace to the 2024 Cécred Launch
While celebrating the launch of her haircare line, Cécred, Beyoncé kicked off her diamond bolo tie streak. She teamed her white Prabal Gurung ensemble with a De Beers bolo tie Prelude necklace from the Metamorphosis collection. A hefty pear-shaped 10-carat fancy light yellow diamond slider pendant is looped through a line of classic diamonds for a total of 32 carats of diamonds.
Beyoncé Wore a Custom “Diamonds by the Yard” Dress by Tiffany & Co. During the 2023 Renaissance Tour
Beyoncé wore a custom “Diamonds by the Yard” dress by Tiffany & Co. during her Renaissance tour in 2023. While performing in Toronto, she dazzled in a one-of-a-kind dress, adorned with more than 150 feet of Diamonds by the Yard and intricate mesh detailing—a piece that took over 200 hours to create and is valued at more than $1 million.
For her first design for Tiffany in 1974, Elsa Peretti placed 12 small diamonds, set in gold bezels at varying lengths, on a 36-inch chain. She was tasked with creating a simplified diamond jewel, accessible to women on a budget. When her longtime friend and frequent collaborator, fashion designer Halston, first set his eyes on the piece, he dubbed it “Diamonds by the Yard.”
Beyoncé Wore Tiffany & Co. Diamond Sunglasses During the 2023 Renaissance Tour
A trendsetter, tastemaker, and overall cultural icon, Beyoncé incorporated natural diamond sunglasses into her repertoire during her 2023 Renaissance World Tour, with Tiffany & Co. as the tour’s official jeweler. As a brand ambassador for the jewelry house, Beyoncé was treated to some of the most exceptional diamond accessories anyone could ask for, including the custom Tiffany Victoria diamond sunglasses.
Beyoncé Wore Diamond Drop Earrings to Make History at the 2023 Grammy Awards
Beyoncé made history at the 2023 Grammys when she accepted the award for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for her seventh studio album, Renaissance, breaking the record for most Grammy wins of all time. She accepted her award in a strapless custom Gucci gown, accessorizing with Lorraine Schwartz dangling Fancy Drop earrings, featuring a total of six white diamonds (three for each earring), totaling over 70 carats.
Beyoncé Wore Messika Chandelier Earrings to Her 2023 Dubai Performance
After a four-year hiatus, Beyoncé dramatically returned to the stage at the new Atlantis the Royal Resort in Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, in 2023. For the red carpet, she wore a custom Dolce & Gabbana gold sequin gown with a plunging sweetheart neckline, a triangular torso cutout, and sheer, thigh-high paneling. The award-winning singer added a voluminous metallic gold cape that extended into a cascading train and accessorized with a gold clutch and dangling diamond earrings under her long, glossy mermaid waves.
The custom natural diamond asymmetrical chandelier earrings were specially designed by Valérie Messika for Beyoncé’s stage return. Centered around four exceptional stones—a 17-carat pear-shaped diamond, a 10-carat pear-shaped diamond, a 7-carat pear-shaped diamond, and an oval-shaped diamond of over 18 carats—the design is accented by dozens of smaller diamonds, totaling approximately 57 carats.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Earrings to Her 2023 Dubai Performance
For her fashionable finale, the singer changed into her third and final look of the night — a Barbie pink semi-sheer minidress from Ukrainian designer Ivan Frolov. With a gilded crystal-plated bust, the frock was embroidered with gold and silver vertical sequined stripes. The superstar completed the stage-worthy look with matching pink thigh-high tights, coordinating opera gloves wrapped in shimmering embellishments, and Lorraine Schwartz white diamond pyramid earrings, featuring large emerald-cut diamonds at their centers, surrounded by graduating rows of baguette diamonds, totaling 60 carats.
Beyoncé Wore the Tiffany & Co. Empire Diamond Necklace to the 2022 Oscars Afterparty
Queen Bey became the first person to wear the epic Tiffany & Co. Empire Diamond Necklace when she sported it to her 2022 Oscars afterparty at the Chateau Marmont. She then wore the prized piece in her June 2022 British Vogue cover shoot, photographed by Rafael Pavarotti.
The legendary jewelry house reached a new milestone with the unveiling of the Empire Diamond Necklace—the most valuable piece of jewelry Tiffany has ever offered for sale. A modern reimagining of a historic Tiffany jewel, the design paid homage to a necklace originally created for the 1939 World’s Fair, where Tiffany introduced a piece that featured 429 diamonds and a 200-carat aquamarine center stone. The original necklace was sold for $28,000 at the time.
In 2021, Tiffany took the original Art Deco silhouette and transformed it into a truly once-in-a-generation masterpiece. The new iteration of the World’s Fair Necklace was renamed the Empire Diamond Necklace. The aquamarine center stone was replaced with an 80-carat D-color, internally flawless oval diamond with perfect color and clarity —a gem so extraordinary, it instantly became a part of diamond history as one of the most important white diamonds on the market today.
Paying tribute to the brand’s innate Empire State of mind, Tiffany named the stone in honor of its New York roots. Set in platinum, the Empire Diamond Necklace features 578 diamonds in total, including 353 round brilliant stones and 224 custom-cut baguettes, all arranged in a perfectly balanced Art Deco-style that nods to Tiffany’s historic design DNA.
Beyoncé Wore the Tiffany Diamond in the 2021 Tiffany “About Love” Campaign
Beyoncé became the fourth person and first Black woman to ever wear the Tiffany Diamond, following socialite Mary Whitehouse, Audrey Hepburn, and Lady Gaga. She wore the celebrated stone in the 2021 Tiffany “About Love” campaign, alongside her husband Jay-Z. Photographed in front of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting “Equals Pi,” Beyoncé emulated Audrey Hepburn’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s costume, wearing a black Givenchy gown with the Tiffany Diamond. She even sits down at a piano and performs her own rendition of “Moon River,” the song made famous by Hepburn in the 1961 film.
The campaign marked the first time the power couple has appeared in an ad campaign together, as well as the first time the Tiffany Diamond has ever been included in a Tiffany & Co. campaign.
Beyoncé Wore Gigantic Diamond Lorraine Schwartz Earrings to the 2018 Grammy Awards
At the 2018 Grammy Awards, the musician sported a powerful black velvet ensemble by Nicolas Jebran with a matching oversized fascinator, inspired by traditions of social justice – specifically the 1960s Black Panther movement. The true head-turner of the look came in the form of huge, geometric diamond earrings by Lorraine Schwartz. The jewelry designer worked closely alongside stylist Marni Senofonte to craft the avant-garde custom jewels.
After making paper cut-outs of the earrings to lay out the dynamic shape and scale, Schwartz crafted them in lightweight titanium so as not to overwork the earlobes. The rhombus-shaped earrings are covered in 70 carats of diamonds in total, reaching all the way beneath her clavicle, featuring substantial 35-carat pear-shaped diamonds in the center.
Beyoncé Wore a 400-Carat Diamond Lorraine Schwartz Necklace to the 2017 Grammy Awards
Winning awards for Best Music Video for “Formation” and Best Urban Contemporary Album for Lemonade, the artist attended the 2017 Grammys, pregnant with twins Rumi and Sir. After a magical performance that evening, she wore a bright red sequined Peter Dundas gown with a plunging neckline – providing the perfect canvas for her $12 million Lorraine Schwartz 400-carat Y necklace that dropped all the way down to her sternum.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Jewelry to the 2016 MTV VMAs
While accepting her award for Video of the Year for her song “Formation” at the 2016 MTV VMAs, the Lemonade artist wore a pair of double-drop earrings from Lorraine Schwartz featuring horizontally-set emerald-cut natural diamonds weighing almost 40 carats each, with two pear-shaped natural diamonds weighing around 8 carats each hanging from the larger stone. Plus, she wore diamond rings weighing around 50 carats. One ring featured a stack of three substantial diamonds, while another featured two on one ring.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Jewelry During the 2016 Super Bowl Halftime Show
As a guest during Coldplay’s halftime show, the songstress rocked the stadium in more than 100 carats of custom Lorraine Schwartz jewelry. The look featured football-shaped diamond earrings, a 30-carat cushion-cut ring, and two double-wrap diamond pinky rings.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Jewelry to the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscars Party
Beyoncé stole the show at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, wearing a figure-hugging white long-sleeved Stella McCartney gown with stunning Lorraine Schwartz jewels. The star wore a choker with gigantic round-cut diamonds and matching diamond drop earrings that peeked out from behind her wavy bob hairstyle.
Beyoncé Wore Messika Jewelry to the 2015 Grammy Awards
While performing during the 2015 Grammy Awards, the singer appeared angelic in an ethereal white, intricately embroidered gown with a dramatic diamond tie necklace from the Messika Silk collection, dubbed the “Miss Hepburn” necklace. This unique high jewelry piece is composed of more than 40 carats of natural diamonds and is designed with comfort in mind. The Silk collection was intentionally created with extreme flexibility – so flexible you can hold it in the palm of your hand, like a piece of silk.
Beyoncé Wore Black Diamonds by Lorraine Schwartz to the 2014 Met Gala
Beyoncé arrived at the 2014 Met Gala to celebrate the “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” exhibit, wearing a plunging black beaded sheer Givenchy Haute Couture gown designed by Riccardo Tisci, teamed with an elegant birdcage headpiece. The songstress finished off her vintage noir-inspired ensemble with black diamond shoulder-scraping chandelier earrings by her go-to jeweler, Lorraine Schwartz.
Beyoncé Wore the Garrard Maguerite Necklace to Promote the 2013 Mrs. Carter Tour
With a rich history of dressing royals in diamonds, it only makes sense that the allure of Garrard jewels would add a regal twist to any A-lister’s red carpet look. To promote The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in 2013, Beyoncé dressed as a queen in all her gilded glory, wearing the glamorous Garrard Marguerite sapphire, pearl, and natural diamond necklace. A replica of the piece was later included in the 2023 Crown to Couture exhibition at Kensington Palace.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Jewelry to the 2013 Grammy Awards
Beyoncé went for a graphic black-and-white vibe at the 2013 Grammy Awards, wearing a color-blocking Osman Yousefzada pantsuit with Lorraine Schwartz pear-shaped diamond stud earrings, a 14-carat portrait-cut diamond statement ring, and coordinating rock crystal, black onyx, and natural diamond bracelets, one on each wrist. She showed off her modern geometric cuffs while holding her new golden trophy, after she won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for“Love on Top.”
Beyoncé Wore Black Diamond Earrings to the 2011 MTV VMAs
Beyoncé infamously revealed her baby bump after performing “Love On Top” at the 2011 MTV VMAs. Unveiling her pregnancy with Blue Ivy, the superstar wore high-waisted black trousers, a white button-down top, a bedazzled purple blazer, and last but not least, a pair of stunning black diamond hoop earrings.
Beyoncé Wore Diamond Hoop Earrings to the 2010 Grammy Awards
During the 2010 Grammy Awards, Queen Bey earned the most wins by a female artist in one night, wearing bright, shining diamond hoop earrings with her Armani Privé metallic minidress.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Diamond Statement Earrings to the 2009 MTV VMAs
During the infamous 2009 MTV VMAs—home to the “Yo, Taylor…” moment, Beyoncé 2009 MTV VMAs, our beloved Sasha Fierce brought home the Moonman trophy in a plunging red Roberto Cavalli minidress with shoulder-scraping Lorraine Schwartz pendant hoop earrings, featuring geometric lines of pavé diamonds and a tassel-clad diamond drop in the center.
Beyoncé Wore a Lorraine Schwartz Diamond Necklace to the 2009 Golden Globes
Beyoncé glistened at the 2009 Golden Globes with a Lorraine Schwartz loop-design natural diamond bib necklace, weighing in at a whopping 200 carats. Each panel within the loops featured a mix of diamond cuts, including pear shapes, oval shapes, marquise-cut, and cushion-cut diamonds.
Beyoncé Rocks a Roc Necklace to the 40/40 Club in 2008
Roc-A-Fella Records was founded by Jay-Z, Damon “Dame” Dash, and Kareem “Biggs” Burke in 1994, after Jay-Z was rejected by major record labels. After it took off, he and many others signed to the label (including rappers like Kanye West) have sported the Roc-A-Fella Records logo in the form of a chain, featuring a diamond-encrusted vinyl record with a bottle of champagne and a cursive “R.”
Bey and Jay tied the knot on April 4, 2008. Shortly after, his new bride attended an exclusive party he hosted at New York’s 40/40 Club, wearing an elegant, dainty version of the diamond Roc-A-Fella Records chain. Calling back to the necklace, in her 2016 track, “Formation,” Beyoncé famously sings, “I’m so possessive, so I rock his Roc necklaces.”
Jay-Z Proposed to Beyoncé With an Emerald-Cut Diamond Engagement Ring in 2007
In the words of Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, “If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.” And Jay-Z most certainly did, on his birthday no less. On December 4, 2007, the rapper proposed to Beyoncé with an enormous emerald-cut diamond engagement ring, set in a micro-pave split-shank band, designed by Lorraine Schwartz. The diamond is estimated to weigh between 18 and 24 carats and was valued at approximately $5 million.
Beyoncé Wore Lorraine Schwartz Diamond Mesh Earrings to the 2005 Oscars
In the early days of their exemplary designer-muse relationship, Beyoncé debuted Lorraine Schwartz’s now trademark handkerchief mesh diamond shoulder-scraping earrings with her sculpted strapless black velvet Versace gown at the 2005 Academy Awards. The earrings featured a fluid setting with languid movement and major impact.
Beyoncé Wore a Huge Yellow Diamond Ring to the 2004 Grammy Awards
Attending the Grammy Awards solo for the first time, Beyoncé sparkled in a gilded gold gown, teamed with a massive Lorraine Schwartz yellow diamond ring, wrapped in white diamonds, in 2004. Beyoncé’s debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, snagged her various Grammy Awards, including the Best Contemporary R&B album award and Best R&B song for “Crazy in Love.”
