While the bankers and VCs may all head to Davos every January, if you want to know where the real money lies you’d do well to turn your head a little further West, where for one-week-only the world’s biggest diamonds and most expensive dresses come together in Paris for Haute Couture Week.

This biannual celebration of truly the best money can buy sees both fashion houses and jewellery maisons unveil the latest and highest expression of craftsmanship, design and, in the case of the latter, ability to access the rarest, largest and most exquisite gemstones the planet has to offer. So what’s lighting up the eyes of jewellery magpies this year? Read on for our lowdown on the best High Jewellery collections of 2026.

Pomellato Stile Libero

A colourful collection designed to promote self-expression, playfulness and a sense of freedom, Stile Libero takes the effortless Milanese elegance Ponelleto is known for and turns it up to 11. “Pomellato Stile Libero embodies High Jewellery in the free-spirited Pomellato way. Each creation holds precious stories of creativity and craftsmanship: jewels that unite distant worlds and push creative boundaries, emblems of beauty and wonder, conceived for women who are free, strong, and authentic protagonists of their own style,” says Sabina Belli, Pomellato CEO.

Divided into three chapters — Visionary Colours, Magnetic Gold, and Hypnotic Shadows — each is designed to highlight a different facet of the house’s master craftsmanship. Long known for its way with the full spectrum of coloured stones, Visionary Colours presses a rainbow of sapphires, diamonds, Paraiba tourmalines, garnets, spinels and tsavorites into the service of show-stopping statement pieces, while Magnetic Gold is an unapologetic display of Pomellato’s unique way with gold. Hypnotic Shadow, meanwhile, takes the time-honoured openwork technique and updates it with the modern romanticism of fluid lines and pave diamonds. “Pomellato Stile Libero is a mindset, the freedom to reject cages without insisting on a single, linear narrative,” adds creative director Vincenzo Castaldo. “Pomellato Stile Libero is the art of moving instinctively, embracing the courage to blend skills and mastery. It is creativity expressed without fear, refined, liberated, and touched by a quiet, thoughtful provocation.”

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Van Cleef & Arpels Fascinating Egpyt

Founded in 1906, at the beginning of the decades which would see Egyptomania sweep the world, culminating in Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, Egyptian motifs, emblems and geometries are a constant presence in the Van Cleef & Arpels archive. This year, the house renews its commitment to this history with Fascinating Egypt: a High Jewellery collection that draws its inspiration directly from the materials, colour palettes, and sacred symbols of Ancient Egypt.

Precious rubies, emeralds, diamonds and sapphires makes themselves at home next to the vibrant lapis lazuli, turquoise and rock crystal favoured by the Pharoahs. Classic heiroglyphic forms are brought to life using signature Van Cleef techniques, such as the house’s traditional Mystery gem-setting, or reimagined through the lens of 20th century jewellery tends, as seen in a series of 1920s-inspired cuff bracelets. “For many years, the Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, so inspired by Egypt in the 1920s, has wished to prolong the story and present its own vision of this ancient heritage,” says Catherine Renier, president and CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels. Mission accomplished, I reckon.

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Louis Vuitton Mythica

A celebration of the Louis Vuitton woman as the heroine of her own story, the house’s vast new 110-piece High Jewellery collection, Mythica, isn’t for the faint hearted. Brimming with statement pieces and world-class stones designed around themes including Conquest, Fortitude, and Victory, each is deisgned to accompany the heroine on a different part of her joureny, be she in need of courage, confidence, protection, or reflection.

Gobstopper coloured stones feature throughout, with standout pieces including the Enigma necklace, complete with an eye-popping 127.66 carat cabochon cat’s eye topaz, the Fortitude necklace, set with an 82.14 carat cushion-cut Cambodian blue zircon, and the Victory ring: a stunning piece representing more than 1,900 hours of craftsmanship and totalling more than 19.71 carats of white and coloured diamonds.

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Buccellati Serenissima

With Serenissima, Buccellati pays tribute to the eternal romance of Venice. A city long associated with fine craftsmanship and creativity, it is specifically the fine lacework of Burano — a handcraft which captivated house founder Mario Buccellati and informed his approach to jewellery — that finds form in this delicate, intricate collection.

While the individual pieces themselves may be big and bold, the goldsmithing and gem setting that created them couldn’t be more refined. A precise openwork technique runs throughout the collection, complemented by Renaissance-style miniature engraving, and contrasted with magnifcent stones. “With Serenissima, we wanted to capture the soul of Venice, its magic and its millennia-old history,” says Andrea Buccellati, honorary president and creative director of Buccellati. “Each jewel is a fragment of this extraordinary city, a tribute to its light, to its art that has shaped entire eras and to its ability to enchant. It is a dialogue between our goldsmithing tradition and the eternal beauty of Venice, an expression of our passion for excellence and art that merges with the splendour of the Serenissima Republic.”

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Repossi Serti sur Vide

For its second High Jewellery collection of 2026, Repossi eschews hefty stones in favour of a more pared back celebration of the pear-cut diamond. Designed as both an ode to, and a reinvention of, the solitaire, across the compact 13-piece collection pear-shaped stones are repeated, rearranged and reset in interesting and inventive ways, bringing new life to this most beloved of gem cuts.

More delicate than most collections you’ll find on this list, Serti sur Vide takes a more considered approach to High Jewellery, carefully selecting individual stones not only for thier unique clarity and colour, but for their ability to enhance the diamonds they are placed in conversation with. A series of coloured pieces sees fine white diamonds become the backdrop to yellow, pink and grey dimonds, or eschews the stone altogether to highlight the brilliance of the pear cut for stones including aquamarines and tourmalines. A true jeweller’s jewellery collection.

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Chanel Signes & Symboles

Taking four symbols that were sacred to Gabrielle Chanel and have since become signature motifs of the house – the lion, the sun, the star, and the camellia – Chanel's new High Jewellery collection, Signes & Symboles, plays on the cultural and personal significance often given to jewellery. Blending the four symbols of greatest signifcance to the house, and thus creating a collection of great meaning to Chanel itself, and expressing them in a vast variety of aesthetics – running the gamut from classic white gold and diamonds, to the geometry of Art Deco, and the pastel-hued playfulness of enamel and coloured stones – they are reinterpreted in a way that allows the wearer to make them their own personal emblem. The most special of good luck charms, if you will.

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Bulgari Eclettica

Inspired by the jewellery house's long-standing relationship with the art world, Eclettica is the ultimate expression of Bulgari's signature bold, daring and avant garde style. Crowned by nine Capolavori High Jewellery pieces, as well as a recently unveiled all-diamond capsule collection, Art Deco-inspired geometric forms dominate, putting a sharp twist on Bulgari's iconic Serpenti bracelet and resulting in majestic collars and sautoirs blending white diamonds with fine coloured gemstones.

"I have often sought to define Bulgari in just a few words, and ‘eclectic’ is undoubtedly one of them. It is a quality intrinsically woven into the Maison’s DNA since our very origins. For Bulgari, eclecticism is not a style or a movement, it is a method, deeply embedded in our essence. In shaping Eclettica, I was guided by mesmerising paintings, by audacious volumes that challenged our artisans in new ways, and by architecture, from which I drew the grace of geometry. Each creation embodies the harmony of contrast, born of multiplicity snd transformed into wearable art,” says Lucia Silvestri, Bulgari Jewellery creative director.

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David Morris Legacy of Colour

White diamonds may be classic but, when it comes to showcasing true gem cutting and setting mastery, colours stones are where it's at. Enter London-based jeweller David Morris and its Legacy of Colour High Jewellery collection. Long known as a purveyor of fine pink diamonds, with this collection the house ventures further afield, exploring the wonderful world of fiery Padparadscha sapphires, blue spinels, Colombian emeralds, and Brazilian Paraiba tourmalines.

Among the standout stones is an incredibly rare unheated 23.41 carat oval Ceylon Padparadscha sapphire described by CEO and creative director Jeremy Morris as “the finest Padparadscha I’ve ever owned”. Forming the focal point of the Radiant Lotus ring, it is now set in pink gold and flanked by pink and white diamonds to highlight its stunning pink-orange hue.

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Dior Diorissima

With Diorissima, Dior Joaillerie artistic director, Victoire de Castellane, turns her attention away from the house's ancestral home of Paris and towards Venice, resulting in a bold and expansive collection drawing on the natural world, the art of collage and the work of artists admired by Christian Dior.

Totalling 141 pieces, the collection takes the form of a cabinet of curiosities, unfolding across a triptych of references: the lush greenery of nature, the mysterious depths of the oceans, and the wonder of the constellations. Largely eschewing gobstopper stones in favour of delicate and highly precise gemsetting, vibrant lacquer complements the sparkle of white diamonds, glittering opals and mother-of-pearl, with the house's savoir faire is displayed through cuts and setting which bring to life bouquets of floral bloom, moons, clouds, and rays of sunshine.

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Chaumet A Journey Through Nature

Chaumet also turns its attention to nature this year but, somewhat unusually, taking inspiration from flora as viewed through a culinary lens. Paying homage to the plants, herbs, and spices which bring variety and delectability to the kitchen, across three chapters the collections celebrates fresh botanicals, sweet spices and aromatics with some truly stellar pieces.

Among the highlights is the Peppercorn tiara – a spray of glittering white diamonds set in white gold – and the Mint Leaf suite, featuring five pieces set with emerald-cut aquamarines weighing up to 17.46cts and accompanied by Akoya pearls and white diamonds.

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Cartier En Equilibre

High jewellery may be all about the biggest, rarest and most opulent stones – but that doesn't mean it has to be all about Elizabeth Taylor-style excess. Simply ask Cartier and its new En Equilibre collection: an ode to clean lines, harmonious balance, and precise, restrained elegance.

Comprised of just four show-stopping necklaces, each celebrating skilled craftsmanship, refined design and some of the most beautiful stones on the market – ranging from raspberry-hued chrysoprase set against green spinels to deep blue sapphires, scarlet rubies and the simple beauty of white diamonds – it's a masterclass in exceptional sophistication. “Creating a distinctive line through understatement is the paradox of sophisticated simplicity," says Jacqueline Karachi, director of High Jewellery Creation. "It’s the art of looking at things differently, but also the art of balancing them with precision. It’s the art of balance, at the heart of our creative approach, that reveals Cartier’s harmony.”

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Tiffany Blue Book Hidden Garden

“This collection celebrates the richness of coloured stones — precious flowers set against interlacing patterns of gold and platinum. The tropics bloom in the colourful volumes of the Blossom chapter. It is a triptych of the tropics where shapes, textures, and shades compete in their flamboyance,” says Nathalie Verdeille, chief artistic officer of jewellery and high jewellery at Tiffany & Co. of the summer 2026 expression of Tiffany's Blue Book high jewellery collection.

Set across five chapters – Paradise Bird, Raffia, Petals, Blossom and Daisy – the collection celerbates nature in all its glory, as well as paying tribute to Tiffany's historic mastery of coloured stones. Flora and fauna are depicted with intense blue zircons, emerald cabochons, pavé diamonds, peridots, opals, chrysoprase, and tourmalines, while the Raffia chapter sees strands of platinum and yellow gold interlaced and studded with rubies, diamonds and sugarloaf tanzanites.

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Boucheron Histoire de Style

For the latest addition to its Histoire de Style series, Boucheron creative director Claire Choisne delved into the archives to create a collection that pays tribute to the life and genius of house founder Frédéric Boucheron. Unearthing four pieces that are emblematic of Boucheron's outlook on life and jewellery, Choisne has reinterpreted them into a compact capsule of major jewellery moments.

Among the highlights are a pair of diamond epaulettes inspired by Boucheron's view of jewellery as an extension of clothing, alongside The Untamed: a finally realised necklace with a branch of ivy that extends down the body, based on Boucheron's never-made sketch for the very first Question Mark necklace. A true jewellery lovers' jewellery collection.

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Chaumet Envol

If you have a working knowledge of French you'll need few clues as to what inspired Chaumet's new Envol collection. Wings have been a signature motif of the house's jewellery collections since the 1810s and, for its 2026 High Jewellery collection, it has delved into the archive to offer up modern interpretations of Belle Époque designs dating to the 1870s.

Inspiration, in particular, came from a pair of enamel and diamond wings owned and worn as a tiara by artist and socialite Gertrude Payne Whitney, founding patron of the Whitney Museum of American Art and an early investor in Vogue. Thought to have been designed by René Morin or Pierre Sterlé, these wings are sleeker and more abstract than their successors, resulting in a modern collection of white gold, diamond, sapphire and grand feu enamel pieces with a timeless vintage appeal. Among the standouts is the Envol tiara: representing 850 hours of work by Chaumet's most skilled artisans, a 3.92 carat Madagascan sapphire is flanked by a symmetrical spray of feathers, all of which can be detached to offer four different ways of wearing.

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Dior Belle Dior

The romance, femininity and continued fascination the Dior Couture archive continues to hold led artistic director Victorie de Castellane to the house's 2026 High Jewellery collection: Belle Dior. Referencing, across 57 stunning pieces, everything from Dior's signature ballgowns, the rope motifs that appear frequently in de Castellane's own work, and the flora of Christian Dior's beloved gardens, the atelier's skill coms to the fore most notably in an exceptional ring set with 6.5 carat pink spinel and surrounded by intricate floral motifs.

Elsewhere, the Soleil Céleste set gives form to Christian Dior's intense interest in the art and symbols of divination. Across a ring, earrings, a transformable bracelet, hair accessories and a bib necklace (pictured above), yellow and white diamond drops play back up to moons carved from black opal and turquoise, set alongside diamond hearts and stars in a celebration of the magic and mystery of the cosmos.

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Graff

Rather than unveiling a mammoth new collection, Graff used the occasion of the Spring 2026 Haute Couture Week to instead make a statement in simplicity: releasing just four images of a new campaign starring model Bibi Breslin showcasing a diamond and sapphire hero suite. "For over 65 years, Graff has shaped the evolution of High Jewellery," said CEO Francois Graff. "In celebration of Haute Couture, we unveil a suite that reflects this legacy — anchored by the world's most exceptional diamonds and gemstones, brought to life through innovation, mastery, and unparalleled craftsmanship."

Encompassing a choker and matching earrings, the new suite is a bold demonstration of the house's savoir-faire. At the centre of the choker sits a 31 carat unheated emerald cut sapphire, from which more than 170 carats of white pear shaped diamonds and sapphire ripple out to create a piece that is structured but with a luminous fluidity. The earrings, likewise, cascade in a delicate waterfall of white diamonds before culminating in a pair of 5 carat sapphires designed to capture and refract light with the wearer's movement.

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De Beers Vibrations

Marking a bigger year than most for De Beers, the London-based jewellery house which this week also celerbated the opening of a new Parisian flagship on Rue de la Paix, Vibrations celebrates the journey of stone to final masterpieces and takes its cues from inland water bodies of traditional diamond-producing countries such as Namibia, Canada, South Africa and Botswana. Across a tight edit of pieces, rippling lakes, flowing rivers and cascading waterfalls find form in delicate white diamonds and fluid silhouettes.

Concepted as an ongoing collection with future expansions to come, the highlight of the first 'chapter', Echo, is an exquisite transformable necklace inspired by the Fish River canyon in Namibia. Set with a central 1.12 carat Fancy Intense Blue diamond, an unusual blend of polished and rough white diamonds allude to the incredible labour and time that goes into every High Jewellery creation. Also new this season is a unique Toi et Moi ring also highlighting the contrasting beauty of polished and rough diamonds. Using the design's signature shape to spotlight a pear-cut white diamond and an organically-shaped yellow-brownish rough diamond, both flanked by dazzling white diamonds, this is a creative and playful way to celebrate the beauty of the earth's most valuable stone.

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Repossi Blast: Splash of Colours

The second chapter in its Blast High Jewellery collection, Repossi once again turns to the irreverant and vibrant spirit of the 1980s for inspiration. Characterised, as the name suggests, by coloured stones, the collection offers three striking spiral design worked variously in yellow gold with warm mandarin garnets, peach tourmalines, yellow topaz and citrines, and cooler white gold with sapphires, tanzanites, white diamonds and indicolite tourmaline. Sophisticated, feminine and more wearable than your average High Jewellery collection, the choice is simple: hot or cold?

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