The sighting: Actress Angelina Jolie attended the Golden Globes wearing a long-sleeve embellished gown and jewelry that was simultaneously understated and dramatic. Let’s take a look!

The jewels: Jolie’s primary jewels are her earrings, and what an earring situation this was! She’s was wearing at least five different ear adornments, all in white gold with diamonds, from French designer Messika and Brazilian designer Ara Vartanian. The largest diamonds all appeared to be pear shapes.

Ara Vartanian announced that the stunning chain was the White Diamond River Chain single earring in 18k white gold, but no other specifics have been identified.

The earring arrangement was my favorite part: Most of the action was at the lobe on one ear, but the other ear featured a long sparkling chain that connected the top of the ear to the bottom and lengthened the look as a whole. It was asymmetrical but felt balanced somehow.

The trends: White gold for the win! Also asymmetry, earring layering, pear shapes and fringe/chains on ears.

What do we think? This was fantastic. We’ve seen so much method dressing on red carpets recently that I was expecting Jolie’s look to be a retro Maria Callas homage, but instead the actress kept things sophisticated and modern.

The asymmetrical ear look was thrilling and highly chic. I especially loved the dangling chain on one side – it was eye-catching without being excessively large.