Coco Jones Wears Custom Mimi So Gold Jewelry Worth $235,600 at Met Gala

Coco Jones did not let her Met Gala look rest on the dress alone. Her custom Mimi So suite carried the night: earrings set in 18-karat white gold with violet-to-lavender-to-pink ombré Tanzanian spinels totaling 40.85 carats and 7.15 carats of cushion-cut diamonds, plus two rings built around a pink mauve oval tourmaline and a blue-lavender sapphire pairing. WWD put the earrings at $168,000 and the full spinel-and-sapphire story at $235,600, a figure that makes Jones one of the clearest examples of how high jewelry, not just couture fabric, drove the Met Gala conversation.

The materials mattered as much as the price. One ring placed a 7.67-carat tourmaline in 18-karat rose gold for $10,800. The other combined a round blue sapphire with an emerald-cut lavender sapphire in 18-karat gold, bringing the ring to 9.6 carats and $56,800. That mix of metals and stones gave the look its tension: white gold for brightness, rose gold for warmth, and yellow gold to anchor the cooler sapphire tones. In a season when formalwear can easily flatten into predictable sparkle, Jones wore color as structure.

She paired the jewelry with a strapless chocolate-brown tulle mermaid gown by Prabal Gurung, cut with a ruched bodice, dramatic flared train and sheer layers. The silhouette was theatrical, but the jewels kept the eye moving upward and outward, which is exactly why this kind of styling is taking hold on red carpets. The Met Gala, held Monday, May 4, 2026, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, centered on the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Costume Art, with the dress code Fashion Is Art. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour co-chaired the benefit, with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos as honorary chairs.

Jones’ appearance also showed how quickly her Met Gala language has evolved. She debuted in 2025 in a custom cream-and-white Manish Malhotra look for Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, covered in more than 200,000 hand-embroidered pearls and crystals. This year, the message was different but just as deliberate: gold was not an accessory to the gown, it was the point. In a night rich with art-forward dressing, Jones proved that custom jewelry with clear materials, visible craftsmanship and serious stone weight can carry the most memorable part of the look.