Rihanna’s Best Met Gala Jewelry Over the Years
As the irrefutable queen of the Met Gala, Rihanna knows how to shine bright like a diamond.
Rihanna arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
Every year, viewers and red carpet watchers wait with bated breath for the Rihanna Met Gala appearance. On fashion’s biggest night, an exclusive assembly of A-list guests gathers in New York City for the Costume Institute Benefit – but some stars stand out time and time again.
Rihanna has become the undisputed queen of the Met Gala over the years. The Fenty Beauty mogul has attended 11 Met Galas throughout her career, shining in decadent diamond jewels from Cartier, Bulgari, Chopard, and more. Last year, her partner A$AP Rocky was one of the evening’s co-chairs, and she took the opportunity to announce her third pregnancy, revealing her baby bump on the red carpet.
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This year, Beyoncé serves as co-chair alongside Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour. The 2026 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.
Here, Only Natural Diamonds looks back on Rihanna’s very best diamond jewelry moments from Met Galas past.
Rihanna Wore Glenn Spiro, Briony Raymond, DYNE, and Fred Leighton Jewelry to the Met Gala 2026
Reigning queen of the Met Gala, Rihanna wore a gilded Maison Margiela ensemble by Glenn Martens, featuring over 115,000 crystal beads, antique jewels, and chains, according to Vogue. Styled by Jahleel Weaver, Rihanna wore Glenn Spiro Extremely Rare Natural ‘Old Mughal Golconda‘ Diamond earrings, featuring two pear-shaped fancy brown-yellow desert diamonds of over 51.9 carats.
She added Briony Raymond Sloan pavé diamond ear cuffs and two reverse Elixia pavé diamond ear cuffs by Sarah Ysabel Narici’s label, DYNE. Rihanna also wore a Victorian rose-cut diamond bangle from Joseph Saidian and Sons, a 1930’s diamond ring by Suzanne Belperron with a 3-carat diamond center stone from Fred Leighton, and two more diamond rings from Munnu The Gem Palace.
Rihanna Wore Messika Jewelry to the 2025 Met Gala Afterparty
For the 2025 Met Gala afterparty, Rihanna stepped out in a black Ann Demeulemeester ensemble, baring her baby bump. She completed the look with a Messika Precious Flow High Jewelry necklace, a diamond cocktail ring, and a resplendent diamond earscape.
Rihanna Wore Vintage Cartier, Bulgari, and Saidian & Sons Jewelry to the 2025 Met Gala
On the heels of announcing her third pregnancy with A$AP Rocky, Rihanna walked up the Met steps at the Met Gala in a Marc Jacobs suited ensemble. The superstar wore a diamond Cartier brooch pinned to her cropped black blazer, a pair of Art Deco Bulgari double diamond brooches totaling 24.5 carats clipped to a collar from FD Gallery, and a strand of natural diamonds under a polka dot tie. She completed the ensemble with diamond stud earrings and an assortment of rings, including a vintage cabochon sapphire and diamond ring from Joseph Saidian & Sons.
Rihanna Wore Messika, Briony Raymond, Lang Antiques, and Saidian & Sons Jewelry Before the 2025 Met Gala
Ahead of the 2025 Met Gala, Rihanna revealed her pregnancy in quintessential New York street style. Shielding herself from the rain outside the Carlyle Hotel, the star wore a light grey Miu Miu sweater set that revealed her burgeoning baby bump, diamond stud earrings, and a Messika Precious Flow High Jewelry necklace and ring. Draped over her arm was a brown fur stole adorned with an array of natural diamond brooches from Joseph Saidian & Sons Jewelry, Lang Antiques, and a Victorian “En Tremblant” diamond brooch from Briony Raymond.
“It was such an extraordinary moment,” Briony Raymond tells Only Natural Diamonds. “That piece is over a century old, crafted to articulate with every step, and to witness her give it new life in such a personal, history-making moment was incredibly moving.” The New York-based jeweler says, “Rihanna has always been a fashion icon, but to see her choose an antique jewel to announce her pregnancy – on the streets of New York before the Met Gala, no less – was a powerful reminder of how these pieces transcend eras. It felt like the perfect meeting of past and present, and a moment I’ll never forget.”
Rihanna Wore Bulgari and Belperron Jewelry to the 2023 Met Gala
Pregnant with her second child, Riot Rose, Rihanna attended the 2023 Met Gala in a dramatic custom white Maison Valentino gown with Belperron floral earrings and a Verdura cuff bracelet, layering pearl and diamond necklaces from Belperron and Bulgari.
Rihanna Wore Nikos Koulis and Munnu Gem Palace Jewelry to the 2021 Met Gala Afterparty
Rihanna attended her annual Met Gala afterparty, hosted at nightlife figure Rickie Akvia’s new club, Davide, in 2021. The star changed out of her black Balenciaga gown and slipped into a sheer black maxi skirt with a plain black T-shirt, tied up with an Art Deco navette-shaped onyx and diamond brooch. She stacked on plenty of natural diamond rings and Art Deco-style bracelets. The style maven completed her look with a Nikos Koulis natural diamond and black enamel tassel Oui necklace and an intricate Polki diamond choker from Munnu Gem Palace.
Rihanna Wore Bulgari Jewelry to the 2021 Met Gala
As the reigning queen of the Met Ball, Rihanna arrived in 2021 wearing a voluminous black Balenciaga Couture gown with a Bulgari Heritage high jewelry choker necklace, complete with over 267 carats worth of diamonds.
Rihanna Wore Vintage Cartier Jewelry to the 2018 Met Gala
The 2018 Met Gala saw a new bishop in town. Rihanna celebrated the opening of the ecclesiastical exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” dressed perfectly on-theme, as usual. The beauty mogul stepped out in a papal-inspired Maison Margiela ensemble designed by John Galliano, papal mitre and all.
Rihanna completed her look with an antique Old Mine diamond rivière necklace from Kentshire and a vintage Cartier crucifix, first created in 1934. Cartier London reintroduced the piece in 1949. The original design featured gold, silver, natural diamonds, opal, pearls, rubies, sapphires, and topaz.
Rihanna Wore Chopard Jewelry to the 2017 Met Gala
Rihanna arrived at the 2017 Met Gala dressed to impress. The songstress stayed on theme in a vibrant and fluttering Comme des Garçons ensemble by designer Rei Kawakubo. Celebrating the Costume Institute’s exhibition “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between,” Rihanna sported jewels from the “Rihanna Loves Chopard” High Jewelry capsule collection she co-designed with the luxury jewelry house. The Grammy-winner wore floral tourmaline, sapphire, rubellite earrings, which included 27.78 carats of black diamond beads and 1.33 carats of black diamonds. She also wore a floral lace watch with 31.76 carats of natural diamonds. She packed on an assortment of diamond rings by Le Vian and Dvani.
Rihanna Wore Cartier Jewelry to the 2015 Met Gala
Rihanna stole the show at the 2015 Met Gala. She graced the red carpet in a fantastic golden yellow Guo Pei couture creation that took two years to make. Along with a gilded headdress, Rihanna wore a rose gold beaded Cartier Paris Nouvelle Vague necklace, sprinkled with natural diamonds.
Rihanna Wore Jacob & Co. Jewelry to the 2014 Met Gala
For her fifth Met Gala appearance, Rihanna arrived in a white two-piece Stella McCartney ensemble and diamond jewelry, including a Jacob & Co. 129-carat Waterfall Collection Diamond Choker, diamond stud earrings, and an assortment of diamond cocktail rings from Cartier, Dionea Orcini, and Yeprem.
