The sighting: Actress Cynthia Erivo, who recently won a Gem Award for Jewelry Style, walked the 2024 Oscars red carpet in a wonderfully dramatic outfit inspired by her upcoming role in Wicked as the iconic green Wicked Witch, Elphaba.
The jewels: Cynthia Erivo loves to layer earrings in her off-duty ensembles, and her Oscars look takes that to the extreme: she has what looks like gold and diamond hoops lining the full expanse of each ear, slightly graduated in size to become larger towards the lobe.
At the end of each ear is a large de GRISOGONO pearl earring with layers of emeralds and diamonds. Did you notice they’re asymmetrical? (Close up view here.) The emerald and diamond layers are inverted in the second earring.
Released by de GRISOGONO in 2013, these stunning white gold earrings feature two South Sea pearls, 31 marquise-cut white diamonds, 31 fancy shape-cut emeralds, 169 white diamonds and 169 emeralds. Thanks to StarStyle for the identification.
Erivo is also wearing an emerald and diamond bracelet and a number of diamond rings, some of which are definitely Louis Vuitton.
The actress’s stylist, Jason Bolden, tagged Roberto Coin in the Instagram photos he posted of the look, but the pearl earrings are definitely de GRISOGONO and the Louis Vuitton logo rings are definitely Louis Vuitton, so that must be a credit for the other rings, the emerald and diamond bracelet, or the hoop earrings.
The trends: Green gems are very hot this year, as are rebellious pearls. The choice to forego a necklace and instead wear statement earrings and rings is also very on-trend, although that particular trend isn’t one of my personal favorites.
What do we think? This is just as cool as it gets. The effect of those two lines of hoops marching down Erivo’s ears, each ending in a bulbous pearl and emerald drop, punctuated below by the sparkling rings on her dramatically manicured hands is just spectacular.
I was briefly disappointed that this dress had such a wide neckline with no necklace, but the green leather texture and voluminous ruffles means that there’s already so much happening in the center of the actress’s body that I understand why she wanted the grounding space of a bare clavicle.
Another thing I noticed is that the ridge shape of the row of hoops down Eviro’s ears perfectly echoes the dramatic ruffled train that goes down the back of her dress! Such a cool detail.
Judgement: 1,400/10 for wonderful wicked-inspired work.