On Friday night time, Tiffany & Co. celebrated the launch of its 2025 Blue E-book excessive jewellery assortment “Sea of Surprise” with a gala dinner held on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork. For a lot of within the crowd, the black-tie event served as a prequel to the primary Monday in Might.
“It looks like a mini Met,” mentioned actress Taylor Russell, who was wearing a flow-y white robe by Conner Ives and several other items of Tiffany & Co. jewellery, together with a necklace of intertwined Akoya pearls and diamonds and a 9-carat diamond ring.
“ Working with them and being right here has been form of a dream true. Considering of carrying Tiffany, as just a little lady, was not even one thing that I ever dreamed of,” she added. “The little lady in me, her wildest goals got here true.”
For Gabrielle Union, carrying and dealing with the model as an envoy can be the end result of a childhood dream.
“I began as a fan, you recognize, the lady with their face pressed towards the window,” she mentioned, carrying an announcement pendant necklace from the 2024 Tiffany Blue E-book Assortment. “Through the years I’ve been blessed sufficient to have the ability to borrow issues, after which my partner began shopping for issues, and it simply grew to become a extremely natural relationship.”
Her husband Dwyane Wade had painted one among his nails Tiffany blue for the event. “Just a bit homage to the model,” mentioned the retired NBA participant, who accessorized with a Tiffany brooch and watch. “I knew they have been gonna deal with the jewels, so I simply needed to coordinate.”
Greta Lee had on a set from the 2025 Blue E-book’s “Urchin” chapter, that includes Fancy Intense Yellow diamonds set in 18-karat yellow gold and platinum.
“The aqua theme of tonight is definitely very significant for me, as a result of the primary time that I acquired to put on Tiffany was the night time of the Oscars final yr,” mentioned Lee, who wore Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany shell earrings for a pre-party, adopted by Excessive Jewellery items for the awards ceremony.
The “Previous Lives” actress will quickly have lots extra events to put on Tiffany on the pink carpet. Her upcoming tasks embrace blockbuster “Tron: Ares,” out within the fall, season 4 of “The Morning Present,” and indie movie “Late Fame,” from the identical producers as “Previous Lives.” The movie costars Willem Dafoe and is “set in New York — it’s about being an artist,” she mentioned.
“Abbott Elementary” star Quinta Brunson was additionally carrying a set of Fancy Intense Yellow diamonds, rendered within the model’s iconic “Chicken on a Rock” design. “It’s simply basic and fashionable,” mentioned Brunson.
Taylor-Pleasure, a home ambassador, just lately starred within the model’s 2024 Vacation Marketing campaign, “With Love, Since 1837.” “I actually respect the melding of each legacy and innovation,” mentioned Taylor-Pleasure, who attended the occasion with husband Malcolm McRae. “They all the time have respect for the previous, while eager to go someplace sooner or later. And I simply actually get pleasure from being part of these conversations.”
The actress, who’s filming Apple TV+ miniseries “Fortunate,” was carrying a diamond necklace, earrings, and ring from the 2025 Blue E-book’s “Wave” Chapter.
Dinner tables have been set amongst the sculptures throughout the Charles Engelhard Court docket, and through cocktail hour Taylor-Pleasure crouched all the way down to learn the title card for Frederick Wellington Ruckstull’s “Night” earlier than turning her gaze upwards towards the marble girl, posed to recommend approaching slumber.
However the night time was nonetheless younger for the Blue E-book crowd, with a multicourse sea-themed meal co-catered by Eric Ripert and Daniel Boulud forward.
Malcolm McRae, Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade on the Tiffany Blue E-book Gala held at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on April 25 in New York, New York.
Nina Westervelt
Friends together with Oscar-winner (and up to date Tiffany & Co. HardWear marketing campaign star) Mikey Madison, Cooper Koch, Zoey Deutch, Kelsey Merritt and Chase Crawford — making their official debut as a pair — Adriana Lima, Ai Tominaga, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Diego Boneta, Valentina Ferrer and extra have been busy catching up across the room. Fashions have been stationed in items from the gathering, providing friends a chance to get a more in-depth take a look at the designs — a reminder that, sure, the jewellery is on the market. And in some instances, already bought.
”It’s wonderful to see so many items of jewellery on this room,” mentioned Tiffany chief government officer Anthony Ledru, taking within the starry arrivals because the pure mild dimmed overhead.
The jewels weren’t the one Tiffany masterpieces on show: the glassed-in courtyard of the museum’s American Wing homes a number of works from the Louis Consolation Tiffany studio, together with the beautiful three-part “Backyard Panorama” stained-glass window, a latest acquisition that was unveiled late final yr.
“We had the nice fortune to be invited, and since that go to, it was in our head to do one thing in that wing — and we did it,” mentioned Ledru. “The Met and Tiffany have been born within the nineteenth century. We each have a love for New York, a love for lovely issues, and we even share a love of Tiffany, so no higher place in New York Metropolis to have the 2025 Blue E-book Gala.”
Not that the method of securing the venue was simple. Initially of dinner, he shared the troublesome journey of bringing the bling to the sculpture court docket with the group. “We’re in New York, so something is feasible,” he added.
It was a message pushed residence in the course of the after-dinner efficiency. Alicia Keys had your complete room, from the VIPs to plainclothes jewellery guards, on their toes and singing alongside by the point she closed out her set with New York aspiration anthem “Empire State of Thoughts, Half II.”
“Right here I used to be pondering it was going to be stuffy — by no means,” mentioned Keys, taking within the grandeur of the setting as her arms hovered above the keys of a grand piano. “It’s actually lovely, timeless New York vitality.”
Evidently, when you have been within the room on Friday with diamonds in your neck — borrowed or purchased — you had, certainly, made it: there, New York, wherever.
Greta Lee, Quinta Brunson on the Tiffany Blue E-book Gala held at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on April 25 in New York, New York.
Nina Westervelt
