The Oscars might be several weeks away, but at Paris Couture Week guests always look red carpet ready.
For some, this means wearing an improbably glamorous evening gown. For others, it means incredibly glamorous jewels.
And for the Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American actress Teyana Taylor on Monday it meant eschewing the usual Cartier, Tiffany and De Beers for diamonds from a rather different source – the Louvre.
When thieves audaciously broke into the Louvre last October and snatched a priceless tiara and an imperial brooch containing 2,438 diamonds, most feared ‘France’s crown jewels’ would be broken into smaller pieces and never seen again.
They certainly didn’t expect them to surface on 35-year-old glamazon Taylor.
Arriving at the Schiaparelli couture show, she sported a tiara and necklace that were dead ringers for the missing treasures, right down to the distinctive bow detail of the looted necklace that once belonged to Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III.
But adding ‘jewellery thief’ to Taylor’s resume would be premature.
Her tiara and necklace were clever replicas reimagined by the French fashion house Schiaparelli’s creative director, Daniel Roseberry.
Teyana Taylor attends the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 26 in Paris, France
When thieves audaciously broke into the Louvre last October and snatched a priceless tiara and an imperial brooch containing 2,438 diamonds, most feared ‘France’s crown jewels’ would be broken into smaller pieces and never seen again. Pictured: Eugenie’s tiara
Pictured: Empress Eugenie’s brooch, pictured, which contains 2,438 diamonds, was stolen in the raid
It takes a lot to upstage the diamante Schiaparelli thong that Taylor famously wore to the Golden Globes in Los Angeles earlier this month, but her ‘heist jewellery’ managed to pull it off.
Worn braless with a transparent black lace sheath dress, the look promptly went viral.
Also at the show was actress Demi Moore, 63, in an eye-catching leopard print coat, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 62, and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos, 56, a high-spending couture client.
All were agog at Roseberry’s creations, which for Spring 2026 included a chartreuse tulle dress featuring 65,000 hand-embroidered silk pieces designed to look like peacock feathers.
Titled ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’, the ornate collection was likely to have been the former for the house’s hardworking seamstresses.
Another look, ‘the Isabella Blowfish’, featured layers of tulle in colours inspired by birds of paradise, in homage to the late British stylist Isabella Blow.
The first day of Paris couture week was notable for its debuts as well as its diamonds, as Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson unveiled his first couture collection for Christian Dior.
Guests – including actress Anya Taylor-Joy, in a striking silk cape over a cream wool Dior man’s coat with bell sleeves ending in outsized fur cuffs – were on hand to witness Anderson’s fresh, floral-themed collection that featured hydrangeas as earrings. As opposed to stolen diamonds.
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