Celebrity Diamond Jewelry Spotlight: Zendaya
The actress and fashion icon never fails to stun with her natural diamond jewels on the red carpet and beyond.
When it comes to natural diamonds on the red carpet, no one does it quite like Zendaya. As a Bulgari ambassador since 2020, Zendaya has had access to a treasure trove of epic natural diamond pieces. With help from her longtime image architect Law Roach, each of her diamond-studded red carpet looks have left jaws on the floor. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that Zendaya is an incredibly talented actress, starring in some of the biggest movies and TV shows of the year, from HBO’s Euphoria to the Dune film franchise.
Zendaya’s career started like those of many child stars on the Disney Channel. She starred as Rocky Blue on the hit show Shake It Up from 2010 to 2013 and on K.C. Undercover as the titular K.C. Cooper. Even from a young age, she was walking red carpets in head-turning outfits, a style star in the making.
Her first blockbuster film set her up for movie stardom as Michelle “MJ” Jones, Peter Parker’s love interest in Spiderman: Homecoming. It was also the set where she met her current boyfriend Tom Holland. In 2019, Zendaya showed off her serious acting chops as Rue Bennett in HBO’s prestige teen drama series, Euphoria for which she won her first Emmy in 2020, making her the youngest recipient of the award for Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
The next year, her fashion prowess was recognized as well when she won the CFDA Fashion Icon Award in 2021. She made Emmy history again in 2022 when she broke records as the youngest person of color to be nominated twice in the category and win. Of course, all of these now-iconic moments were dripping in natural diamonds.
This year, she is set to star as a tennis player-turned-coach in Challengers alongside Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. Her first red carpet-appearance for the film in Sydney is already turning heads. Ahead, take a look at Zendaya’s best-ever natural diamond moments from her incredible career—so far.
2024: Zendaya at the London Premiere of Challengers
Zendaya once again leaned into the tenniscore theme of her Challengers premiere looks with a white dress covered in a tennis racket print and Bulgari natural diamond earrings, bracelet, and ring.
2024: Zendaya at the Rome premiere of Challengers
Zendaya wore a statement Bulgari Serpenti lariat necklace against an open white blazer alongside some dainty Bulgari rings.
2024: Zendaya at the Australian Premiere of Challengers
For the first red carpet premiere of the anticipated film Challengers, Zendaya wore a pair of stunning natural diamond drop earrings from Bulgari.
2024: Zendaya at the Green Carpet Awards
Zendaya shined Bulgari Serpenti Viper jewels dotted with pave natural diamonds at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards, a night honoring those who are driving political, social, and environmental solutions for a brighter collective future.
2024: Zendaya at the New York Premiere of Dune: Part 2
Zendaya turned out another incredible look for the Dune: Part 2 press tour in New York City wearing Stéphanie Rolland Couture and an abundance of Bulgari natural diamond Serpenti rings and Bulgari diamond earrings.
2024: Zendaya at the Dune: Part 2 London Premiere
For the first red carpet moment of the highly anticipated film, we knew Zendaya was going to make a splash. Jaws dropped when she arrived in Thierry Mugler’s 1995 robot suit, styled by Law Roach, paired with an epic collar from Bulgari which was complete with 381 natural diamonds and 22 sapphires, featuring an 11-carat sapphire at the center. She later changed into a slinky black dress paired with vintage Bulgari jewelry including natural diamond earrings and a natural diamond and emerald ring to watch Dune: Part 2.
2024: Zendaya at Fendi’s Haute Couture Show
Zendaya arrived at the Fendi runway show wearing a gorgeous natural diamond drop necklace from Bulgari’s high jewelry collection along with simple natural diamond stud earrings.
2023: Zendaya at the SAG Awards
Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress for her role in Euphoria, the actress stepped out in epic diamonds from Bulgari at the 2023 SAG Awards.
2023: Zendaya at the Louis Vuitton Men’s Show in Paris
The style star sat front row at Pharrell’s runway show wearing a Bulgari Serpenti Viper pave diamond necklace and a Bulgari Serpenti pendant featuring a natural diamond and emerald snake head.
2023: Zendaya at a Bulgari High Jewelry Event
Attending Bulgari’s Mediterranea High Jewelry event at Palazzo Ducale alongside brand ambassadors Anne Hathaway, Priyanka Chopra, and more stars, Zendaya let her jewelry take center stage, wearing an off-the-shoulder gown paired with a natural diamond-encrusted high jewelry Serpenti statement necklace featuring yellow natural diamonds at the center.
2022: Zendaya at the Emmy Awards
The Euphoria star celebrated another historic win for Leading Actress in a Dramatic Series at the 2022 Emmy Awards, wearing a Bulgari diamond collar, stud earrings and a strapless black Valentino ballgown.
2022: Zendaya at the Vanity Fair Oscars After Party
A departure from her more feminine looks, we love the risk she and image architect Law Roach took—and certainly pulled off—with this suit, accessorized with a Bulgari natural diamond brooch.
2022: Zendaya at the Oscars
At the 94th Academy Awards, Zendaya stacked 12 of Bulgari’s flexible diamond Serpenti Viper bracelets and Bulgari Serpenti Viper white gold and full pavé diamond collar: a look that is still remembered as one of her best to this day.
2021: Zendaya at the Venice Film Festival
The actress made waves in her wet-look-inspired Balmain gown accessorized with a Bulgari serpenti necklace at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. She was also spotted at the Festival in a more casual ensemble, sporting her now-famous yellow natural diamond ring from Bulgari, a present to herself for all of her incredible accomplishments that year.
“This is my splurge, my treat-myself,” she told the British Vogue journalist Marisa Meltzer after she spotted the ring set with a large yellow diamond flanked by two white diamond side stones on her finger. “I do get a little employee discount,” the actress, who is an ambassador for the brand, delightfully explained of the purchase. She went on to add, “It feels like it’s gonna be an heirloom, like one day I can give it to my grandchildren.”
2021: Zendaya at the Oscars
The star stunned at the 93rd Academy Awards wearing Bulgari diamond jewels — totaling over $6 million. Styled by Law Roach, Zendaya’s layered necklaces and rings were plucked from the “Magnifica” high jewelry collection, with over 183 carats of natural diamonds.
2021: Zendaya at the CFDA Awards
As the recipient of the Fashion Icon Award, Zendaya turned out what may have been her best look yet at the 2021 CFDA Awards. She wore a red Vera Wang two-piece set paired with Bulgari natural diamond jewels, including a necklace from the Diva’s Dream collection, a high jewelry bracelet, some dainty rings and natural diamond stud earrings.
2020: Zendaya at the Virtual Emmy Awards
The 2020 Emmy Awards may have looked different from award shows past thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Euphoria actress’ win was still a memorable and historic one. She wore statement Bulgari natural diamond earrings as she accepted the award for Best Leading Actress in a Dramatic Series, the youngest woman to ever win.
2020: Zendaya Attends a Bulgari Launch Event
For one of her first events as a Bulgari brand ambassador, Zendaya helped launch the Maison’s B.zero1 Rock jewelry collection wearing a necklace featuring 6 cascading strands of diamonds and a central blue sapphire.
2019: Zendaya at the Emmy Awards
The Emmy-winner accessorized her stunning green Vera Wang corset gown with Panthère de Cartier drop earrings featuring diamonds, emeralds, and onyx and a Cartier Agrafe cuff bracelet featuring 1,300 brilliant-cut natural diamonds totaling nearly 30 carats, which retails for about $236,000.
2019: Zendaya at the Lancôme Idôle Fragrance Launch
As the face of Lancôme’s Idôle Fragrance, the actress shined at the launch event, wearing spiral-shaped diamond earrings from Chopard’s exclusive Haute Joaillerie Collection and two diamond statement rings from the brand’s Magical Setting Collection. Each diamond ring features concentric circles of glittering diamonds surrounding a larger, brilliant center stone.
2018: Zendaya at the Oscars
At the 90th Academy Awards ceremony in 2018, the star wore vintage Bulgari diamond jewels from the firm’s archive collection, two years before she even officially became an ambassador for the brand.
