{"id":101509,"date":"2025-08-27T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:21:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-giant-engagement-ring-and-the-celebrity-trend-for-big-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101509\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s giant engagement ring, and the celebrity trend for big rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sofia Ferreira Santos<\/p>\n

BBC News<\/p>\n

\"@TaylorSwift\/Instagram@TaylorSwift\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Tayvis are engaged – and this is the ring<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift has announced her engagement to her partner Travis Kelce, sharing a series of pictures, including one of the ring, on Instagram.<\/p>\n

The post was accompanied by the caption: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”<\/p>\n

Not every English teacher can afford a diamond ring costing six or even seven figures, however.<\/p>\n

Fans and curious onlookers have been sharing their opinions on the proposal and the eye-catching ring.<\/p>\n

Kelce is reported to have designed the ring with a jeweller, with its vintage-inspired style seeming to match the aesthetic of Swift’s newly announced album The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Industry experts have estimated it could cost anywhere from \u00a3500,000 up to \u00a34m, said Ruth Faulkner, the managing editor for Retail Jeweller magazine.<\/p>\n

The diamond looked to be an 8-10 carat vintage stone, which Ms Faulker said is “quite rare” for an antique piece.<\/p>\n

Jewellery journalist Rachael Taylor said the softer sparkle on the stone was likely because it was an antique cut by hand rather than by machine.<\/p>\n

She added that Swift’s ring plays into a trend towards vintage styles with different cuts and oversized stones, which fits into the singer’s “romantic” aesthetic.<\/p>\n

“Whenever a celebrity gets engaged, if their ring is particularly standout, it’s always going to spark a bit of interest in that,” Ms Faulker added.<\/p>\n

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Chunky gold bands, as seen on Dua Lipa, have been increasingly popular this year, Ms Fitzpatrick said<\/p>\n

General trends have been leaning towards bigger stones for celebrities and the public alike – but stars are opting for statement pieces to set them apart, Rhona Fitzpatrick, the founder and CEO of the Diamond Expert, told BBC News.<\/p>\n

Rings spotted on different celebrities’ fingers this year – such as Zendaya’s unusual horizontally set diamond and Dua Lipa’s round diamond on a chunky gold band – show a preference for a larger stone in a less traditional setting.<\/p>\n

Even when celebrities stick to trends – such as big, oval diamonds – they tend to do it in an extravagant way which is harder to replicate.<\/p>\n

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Zendaya wore her east-west set diamond – on her left hand – at the Golden Globes earlier this year<\/p>\n

Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner, Georgina Rodri\u0301guez, made headlines when she shared a picture of the ring she received from the footballer earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The huge, oval cut rock is reportedly worth up to $5m (\u00a33.7m), Ms Fitzpatrick said.<\/p>\n

“It’s not the kind of ring you’d be popping to Tesco with,” she added.<\/p>\n

Following Rodri\u0301guez’s announcement, some bridal jewellery suppliers started to bring out their own takes on the ring.<\/p>\n

“It’s a lot harder for everyday people to afford the same price tag,” Ms Fitzpatrick said, adding that some jewellers are instead opting for cheaper lab-grown diamonds as a way to cater to a larger variety of styles.<\/p>\n

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“Yes, I do. In this and all my lives,” Georgina Rodri\u0301guez said as she shared the news of her engagement<\/p>\n

This alternative has been increasingly popular, Ms Fitzpatrick said, adding that around 52% of the world’s engagement rings now feature lab-grown diamonds.<\/p>\n

Some customers are also opting for lab-grown for ethical reasons- but Ms Taylor said the debate is not as simple as it looks.<\/p>\n

Lab-grown is not automatically more sustainable than natural mined stones, as the process uses a significant amount of energy.<\/p>\n

Ms Taylor said some communities are financially dependent on the industry and rely on it for survival. There are, however, concerns over working conditions in diamond mines.<\/p>\n

“As long as you are buying from a reliable source that’s cleaning up the environment and looking after the communities involved,” Ms Taylor said, “you have to decide, what’s more important to you?”<\/p>\n

She added that the ethics surrounding antique diamonds like Swift’s are also complicated.<\/p>\n

“Vintage can be more of an ethical choice, but its origin and story you don’t necessarily know,” Ms Taylor said.<\/p>\n

Buying antique diamonds means no additional mining, but you also “have no idea what circumstances that was mined in”, she added.<\/p>\n

“If we’re talking 100 plus years ago, that circumstance was probably not very nice.”<\/p>\n

Shoppers have increasingly turned to repurposing vintage pieces to create something more bespoke, Ms Faulkner said.<\/p>\n

Couples will often choose to re-use jewellery with a “story behind it”, she said, such as pieces that are passed down from relatives.<\/p>\n

While it’s not known whether Swift’s ring has a backstory, she is clearly happy with the choice. But if her lyrics are anything to go by, it’s the not most important thing. <\/p>\n

“I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings,” she sings in her song, Paper Rings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News @TaylorSwift\/Instagram Tayvis are engaged – and this is the ring Taylor Swift has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-101509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}