Ella Balinska Wears Cartier’s 610-Diamond Necklace Backwards

Ella Balinska’s custom Prada gown gave her a first-class pass to the thigh-high dress club at the Charlie’s Angels premiere, but it wasn’t her exhibitionist leg reveal that turned heads in the Vogue office. Balinska’s accessory game marked out Hollywood’s new recruit as a red-carpet dresser to watch as her star ascends.

The south-west Londoner, who plays machine gun-toting, ex-MI6 agent Jane Kano in Elizabeth Banks’s reboot, looked to Cartier for jewels to pepper her high-neck, long-sleeved Prada design. She wore a Panthère de Cartier platinum necklace comprising one sapphire, onyx and 610 brilliant-cut diamonds totalling 14.97 carats, backwards to highlight the cut-out on the reverse of the dress. An Écrou de Cartier onyx ring added sparkle to her black nail polish.

“To go from zero to 100 doesn’t really happen that often,” Balinksa told Vogue of her career trajectory, which has, in turn, brought household-name brands knocking. “It shows how the industry is changing and opening up to new actors.” Cartier, for example, has invited Balinska to join its Panthère tribe, a collective of women who represent the message of the collection and the storied panther symbol that dates back to 1914: freedom.