{"id":260529,"date":"2026-05-06T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260529\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:19:08","slug":"meet-the-miami-jewelers-marcello-hernandez-wore-at-the-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260529\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Miami Jewelers Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez Wore at the Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if Miami needed another reason to love Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, the homegrown comedian<\/a> wore (and shouted out) two Calle Ocho joyerias at his Met Gala debut on Monday, repping for both his Cuban and Dominican heritage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom made me this with Sammy Jeweler<\/a> en La Calle Ocho in Miami,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez told interviewer La La Anthony on the red carpet, pointing to a pin on his left jacket pocket. \u201cI have an Angel de la Guarda, un azabache (stone for protection), and larimar, which is a Dominican stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez then pointed to another pin on his right arm, this one from Santayana Jewelers<\/a>, just off Eighth Street in Tamiami (917 SW 122nd Ave.). \u201cAnd this is the traditional azabache, with \u2018Dios me bendiga\u2018 [God bless me] in Spanish.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The comedian, who hosted weekly reviews on Only in Dade before becoming a breakout star on Saturday Night Live, shouted out the homegrown businesses alongside Thom Browne, the New York-based designer of his suit.<\/p>\n

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The clip quickly went viral on social media<\/a> and was picked up by national media, including the Today Show<\/a>, which posted an image of Hern\u00e1ndez and his stunning Dominican-born architect girlfriend, Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral, with the caption, \u201cCalle Ocho shoutout! Marcello brought a little bit of home to the #MetGala.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a big deal for every jeweler on Eighth Street,\u201d Elena Santayana, of Santayana Jewelers, tells New Times. The third-generation Cuban-American designer says Hern\u00e1ndez placed the order for his \u2018Dios Me Bendiga\u2019 pin on her website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, hold on, Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez with two Ls?\u201d<\/p>\n

After some digging, Santayana was confident that the mystery order was, in fact, placed by the comedian and assumed he was purchasing the pin for an upcoming baptism, explaining that in Cuban culture, the pin is traditionally a gift for babies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he was going to be a padrino [godfather],\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She decided to leave a funny note in the package \u2014 \u201cOMG OMG OMG, is it you? Yes, no, maybe\u201d \u2014 but had no idea he planned to wear the piece on fashion\u2019s biggest night. \u201cI was shocked!\u201d<\/p>\n

Martha Lima, owner of Sammy\u2019s Joyeria (1833 SW Eighth St.), on the other hand, knew exactly what Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s mother bought his pin for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She describes the azabache (a smooth black stone) she sold her as a \u201chater blocker,\u201d a piece of traditional Cuban jewelry used for protection, kind of like an evil eye. She also procured the guardian angel pendant Hern\u00e1ndez wore, but not the Dominican larimar (which New Times was unable to track down).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are very proud of making him shine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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