Shop the Pandora Jewelry Odessa A’Zion and Dree Hemingway Wore to the Met Gala
As seen on Odessa A’Zion and Dree Hemingway.
Reported by Vogue.
The Met Gala red carpet is typically a graveyard for the shoppable — custom couture, borrowed archive pieces, jewels worth more than a down payment. This year, Pandora quietly broke that rule. According to Vogue, the brand dressed a slate of talent for the 2026 Met Gala, including actresses Odessa A'zion and Dree Hemingway and musicians María Zardoya and Troye Sivan, in pieces that are actually available to buy right now — most under $300.
The theme was "Costume Art," a directive to merge fashion with fine art references, and both A'zion and Hemingway arrived in Valentino. A'zion leaned into the whimsy of her floral embellished gown with a stack of dainty rings — butterflies, flowers, tiny hearts — that felt less like an afterthought and more like punctuation. Hemingway's look pulled from Victorian etherealism and 1920s flapper glamour, and she finished it with sterling silver accents and a lab-grown diamond tennis bracelet that made her metallic ensemble genuinely glow.
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What's notable isn't just the accessibility — it's the editorial intelligence. Hemingway's tennis bracelet and rings are the kind of pieces that translate effortlessly beyond the carpet: think a slip dress at a spring wedding, a blazer and trousers at a cocktail event. A'zion's layering rings work just as well with a white tee on a Tuesday. The Met Gala is supposed to be aspirational to the point of absurdity, and yet here are two women proving that restraint and relatability aren't the enemy of a show-stopping look.
There's something quietly radical about a major jewelry brand choosing the Met — the Met — to say: you can actually have this. Lab-grown diamonds, sterling silver, sub-$300 price points. It reframes the entire conversation around what "fine jewelry" means at a moment when the fashion industry is being asked, loudly, to reckon with who it's actually dressing.
The takeaway is simple: the most interesting move at this year's Met Gala wasn't a custom gown — it was Pandora reminding everyone that great jewelry doesn't have to be untouchable to be unforgettable.
Read the original at Vogue.
