\nIt\u00e4 won first place with the Yar\u00ed \u0130znik Whirl ring, a new version of the brand’s Yar\u00ed Whirl ring, inspired by the historic Turkish city of \u0130znik. Second and third place went to Yvonne L\u00e9on and Italian designer FerriFirenze.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Best in Bridal<\/strong> Best in Color Below $40K<\/strong> Best in Haute Couture<\/strong> The first, second, and third-place jewels in the Las Vegas competition. There are many new entries among the 2026 winners of the Couture Design Awards in Las Vegas, one of the most popular jewelry competitions in the world. The awards were assigned by a jury composed of Carla Carter of G. Marie Luxuries, Corina Madilian of Single Stone, Jon Kaiser of Bloomingdale’s, Miguel Enamorado of Harper’s Bazaar, and writer Smitha Sadanandan. Here are the winners by category. Best in Below $10,000 Retail It\u00e4 won first place with the Yar\u00ed \u0130znik Whirl ring, a new version of the brand’s Yar\u00ed Whirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":136842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-142856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gioielli","style--link-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142874,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142856\/revisions\/142874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWinner: Uniform Object, with the Mantle ring. Kamyen and Harwell Godfrey took second and third place.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJorge Adeler took first place with an opal ring. Karina Choudhrie and JV Insardi took second and third place.
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\nBest in Color Above $40K<\/strong>
\nJared Lehr took first place, while Mindi Mond placed second and Miseno took third.
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\nBest in Platinum<\/strong>
\nItaly’s Demeglio won the Best Platinum Jewelry award. Plat Africa and Le Gramme took second and third place.
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\nBest in Diamonds Below $40K<\/strong>
\nFirst place went to Zahn-Z designer Hiba Husayni (winning her second consecutive Couture Design Award) with the Big Zaha Art Deco ring. Second place went to another Italian brand, Mattia Cielo, while Ondyn placed third.
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\nBest in Diamonds Above $40K<\/strong>
\nGermany’s Stenzhorn took first place in the category with a delicate choker, followed by Crisscut in second place, and Idoro in third.
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\nBest in Gold<\/strong>
\nRainbow K’s Tourbillon necklace won first place in the category, while Salima Thakker took second place and Peruffo took third.
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\nBest in Innovative<\/strong>
\nAmong this year’s new designs, Pen Man\u00e9 won two Couture Design Awards: in the Best in Innovative category, it beat out Francesca Villa, who came in second, and Busatti 1947, who came in third.
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\nA creation in white and yellow diamonds by Ashna Mehta took first place in the category, with Saboo Fine Jewels in second place and Hong Kong designer Austy Lee in third.
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\nBest in Pearls<\/strong>
\nThe winner for the category was Jiahn, while Gellner took second place and Yutai took third place.
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\nEditors’ Choice<\/strong>
\nPen Man\u00e9 won again, with Italian designer Mariani taking second place and debutant Juliana Xerez Fine Jewelry in third.
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\nBest in Debut<\/strong>
\nThe category saw Crisscut take first place, Daniel Yu second, and AG Mehta third.
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\nPeople’s Choice<\/strong>
\nThe award, chosen by text message voting during the Couture Design Awards, went to Helena Rose. Italian designer Chantecler took second place and Harry Kotlar third.
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