Demi Moore Shines in Over 250 Carats of Diamonds at the Cannes Film Festival 2026
Explore the diamond-drenched glamour at the Cannes Film Festival 2026, where stars like Demi Moore and Jane Fonda lit up the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
Demi Moore attends the opening ceremony during the Cannes Film Festival 2026. (Getty Images)
The Cannes Film Festival 2026 has officially started, with magnificent jewelry hitting the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. A-listers like Demi Moore and Jane Fonda have arrived for the Opening Ceremony in impressive suites of dazzling natural diamonds.
Since its early days in 1946, the film festival has taken over the resort town’s renowned Croisette. Each spring, a glamorous menagerie of international movie stars and supermodels heads to the south of France to grace the red carpet leading up to the steps of the convention center. The quintessential venue to showcase jaw-dropping diamonds, Cannes’ famously strict formal dress code always calls on couture creations and mega-watt gems and jewels.
Let me set the scene. Against the backdrop of the French Riviera, palm trees sway in the breeze, mobs of cameras flash, and the energy of the red carpet reaches a fever pitch. Diamond chandelier earrings graze the shoulders of cinema’s most elite. Intricate bib-style necklaces drape across countless décolletages in diamonds, and wrists are stacked to the nines in blinged-out bangles and bracelets. Headpieces could double as historic heirlooms borrowed from the royal vaults.
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival opened with a tribute to Lord of the Rings director and cinema legend Peter Jackson, who will receive the prestigious Honorary Palme d’Or. Robert De Niro was granted the honor in 2025, and Meryl Streep in 2024. South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will serve as jury president and will chair the competition jury, including Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, director and screenwriter Chloé Zhao, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian-American actor Isaach De Bankolé, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, and Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård.
Isabelle Huppert will serve as the Godmother of the Trophée Chopard, to be presented to emerging talents Odessa A’zion and Connor Swindells during the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Established in 2001, the award celebrates emerging international talent in cinema, each year honoring one actress and one actor with promising careers. “I am thrilled,” Huppert said in a press release. “This award honors that fragile, exhilarating moment when a career is still being shaped — a time of intuition, courage, and freedom. Supporting emerging actors means supporting the future of cinema itself.”
Demi Moore Wore Chopard Jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival 2026
Styled by Brad Goreski, jury member Demi Moore hit the red carpet for the Opening Ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2026 and the premiere of “La Vénus Electrique” (The Electric Venus), wearing a custom beaded strapless Jacquemus gown and an impressive array of Chopard jewelry. The Substance actress donned a 226.34-carat diamond bib necklace, featuring five rows of glistening natural diamonds, set in 18-karat white gold. She added a massive pair of 22.87-carat diamond cluster earrings and a 9.65-carat diamond ring, all from Chopard’s Haute Joaillerie Collection. Moore also wore a 4.48-carat diamond ring from the L’Heure du Diamant Collection, bringing the total to 263.34 carats.
Jane Fonda Wore Pomellato Jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival 2026
Legendary actress and activist Jane Fonda stepped out at the premiere of “La Vénus Electrique” (The Electric Venus) during the Opening Ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2026, wearing a classic custom black sequinned Gucci gown with Pomellato’s Iconica High Jewelry necklace in white gold, featuring a 46.34-carat oval cabochon-cut milky aquamarine, accented by diamonds set within a white gold linked chain with two diamond Nudo rings.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu Wore Pomellato Jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival 2026
Emily in Paris actress and Pomellato Global Ambassador, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, stepped out at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, wearing a plum purple ruffled gown with diamond pieces from the Italian luxury jeweler’s new 2026 High Jewelry collection. The French actress sported a diamond collar featuring 21 pear-shaped Paraíba tourmalines arranged in an irregular raindrop composition. She paired it with matching long-drop earrings echoing the necklace’s design.
Maika Monroe Wore Pasquale Bruni Jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival 2026
Actress Maika Monroe attended the “La Vénus Électrique” (“The Electric Venus”) screening during the Opening Ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2026, wearing an Ashi Studio gown with Pasquale Bruni’s Aleluiá earrings and Giardini Segreti bracelet and ring, all crafted in white gold with white natural diamonds, styled by Chloe and Chenelle Delgadillo.
Kelly Rutherford Wore Damiani Jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival 2026
Gossip Girl alum Kelly Rutherford wore a black beaded semi-sheer long-sleeved Giorgio Armani gown with the Damiani Gioia del Mare (“Joy of the Sea”) necklace, featuring 11 oval-cut Paraiba Tourmalines of 19.84 carats, 76 Paraiba Tourmalines of 4.05 carats, and 376 brilliant-cut diamonds of 19.48 carats, set in white gold. She added a pair of matching diamond earrings and a coordinating diamond cocktail ring.
