Like any self-respecting actress, Kate Winslet piles on the diamonds for red carpet events. For a while, it seemed that she favored Chopard, appearing at the BAFTA Awards and the Golden Globes in Chopard diamond earrings. At one SAG Awards ceremony, she opted for a pair of Chopard’s 22-carat pear-shaped diamond drop earrings and a three-row bracelet containing 39 carats of diamonds.
More recently, though, Winslet has been seen in diamond jewelry by Tiffany & Co. The style blogs were buzzing over the actress’ jewelry at the 2010 Academy Awards, to which she wore Tiffany’s Ellendale yellow diamonds. The necklace was custom-designed for the event, based on designs in the jeweler’s archives, and featured three exceptional yellow diamonds (one weighing 13.09 carats and two smaller six-carat stones) surrounded by 642 white brilliant-cut diamonds.
Kate paired the statement necklace with Tiffany & Co. 10-carat Fancy Intense Yellow diamond earrings and yellow diamond bracelets.
Some months after legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor passed away, Kate Winslet donned $30 million of Taylor’s jewelry to portray the late Queen of Diamonds in a photo spread in V Magazine.
However, perhaps the most famous diamond associated with Winslet never actually existed. In the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, Kate Winslet’s character – Rose DeWitt Bukater – wears the Heart of the Ocean, a blue diamond pendant modeled on the Hope Diamond, although the love story that inspired the film featured a sapphire necklace.
The prop necklace, by the way, was crafted from a blue cubic zirconium surrounded by white CZ.
