Before Charli XCX’s brat summer had infiltrated your every waking thought, before you began seeing brat-coded green everywhere—from supermarket apples to Gucci’s spring 2025 menswear collection, Lime bikes to the Kamala Harris campaign’s X profile—tying an engagement announcement to an album release might have seemed an unlikely thing to do. But then fashion’s favorite foodie, Gabbriette, announced her betrothal to Matty Healy on Instagram with the words, “Marrying the 1975 is very Brat” (Charli herself is also engaged to the 1975’s drummer, George Daniel).
If Gabbriette’s engagement announcement was unconventional—“I love being in love,” she told Julia Hobbs in the August issue of British Vogue—then so too is the black diamond she’s now sporting with a matching grebo manicure on her left hand. But then, a certain bucking of convention has become a theme of this year’s celebrity engagements (or celebrity divorce, in one instance).
From Gabbriette’s black diamond to a single EmRata’s repurposed Trilogy ring, fall in (or out of) love with 2024’s biggest celebrity engagement ring trends, below.
Gabbriette’s black diamond
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The internet is divided on the provenance of Gabbriette’s engagement ring. Her fiancé Matty Healy’s mother, TV presenter Denise Welch, has said it’s a custom design, but other corners of the internet have directed fans to a 1stDibs jewelry listing. The stone in question—a whopper of a faceted black diamond encircled by pavé diamonds—also boasts three rows of diamonds on the ring’s shank, and taps into Gabbriette’s gothic proclivities (think butterfly motif and tribal tattoos and vintage Cesare Paciotti dagger boots), and couldn’t be less traditional. At the start of 2024, British Vogue reported on the growing appetite for unusually colored diamonds and gemstones in engagement ring design. Look to London-based jeweler Rachel Boston for bespoke creations set with grey and “salt and pepper” diamonds.
Emma Roberts’s chunky gold band
“Putting this here before my mom tells everyone,” Roberts captioned her engagement announcement Instagram post this month, alluding to the moment her mother revealed her pregnancy to a fan in an Instagram comment back in 2020. Indeed, Roberts’s mum might have struggled to keep schtum about Emma’s rock: a round-cut single diamond with a solitaire setting. The less-than-traditional twist? It’s mounted on a chunkier-than-usual gold band. “Emma has opted for a thick gold band, which is an unconventional choice since most people favor a thin band in order to accentuate the size of their diamond. It’s a timeless choice for an engagement ring, symbolic of eternal love,” jeweler Zack Stone previously told Vogue.
EmRata’s repurposed “divorce” ring
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Ok, not exactly an engagement ring, but certainly a piece that started life as one. “The rings represent my own personal evolution,” Ratajkowski exclusively told Vogue, of the two Alison Lou designs that she had made from what used to be her engagement ring, following her divorce from Sebastian Bear-McClard in 2022. “I don’t think a woman should be stripped of her diamonds just because she’s losing a man.” The rings, which Ratajkowski wears on her fourth and pinky fingers on her right hand, incorporate her original Toi et Moi ring’s pear-shaped and princess-cut diamonds, and are set in yellow and platinum gold. “For the princess cut, we wanted to make it feel like a larger stone, so we added two trapezoid stones on either side,” explained Alison Lou founder Alison Chemla. “It was a fun project to work on together amidst a hugely transitional period in my life,” said Ratajkowski. “The ring became symbolic to me—some kind of token or evidence of my life becoming my own again.”
Phoebe Dynevor’s oval diamond
“I really love minimalist pieces, and am drawn to things that have a daintiness to them,” British actor Phoebe Dynevor told British Vogue’s style editor Funmi Fetto at Louis Vuitton’s high jewelry presentation in Saint-Tropez in June. At the time, the Louis Vuitton ambassador just happened to be sporting the engagement ring that she first unveiled at the Met Gala the previous month (worn with a blush pink gown by Victoria Beckham), a bezel set oval diamond on a delicate gold band. Other famous fans of the oval cut? Hailey Bieber, Salma Hayek Pinault, Serena Williams, Blake Lively and Kourtney Kardashian.
Hailey Bieber’s engagement ring 2.0
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Why have one engagement ring when you could have two? That was certainly Hailey Bieber’s attitude, when she unveiled the newest sparkler on her ring finger back in May: a jaw-dropping oval-cut diamond set on a delicate gold band, designed by A-list favorite Lorraine Schwartz. The design, which is estimated to have cost up to $1.5 million, replaced Bieber’s original engagement ring design, a diminutive-by-comparison oval diamond ring by New York jeweler Solow Co, which her husband Justin Bieber originally proposed with in 2018. The gobstopper isn’t the only ring that Bieber has added to her recent collection. When the couple renewed their vows in Kilauea, Hawaii—also using the moment to publicly announce their first pregnancy—the Biebers exchanged Tiffany Co. Tiffany Forever bands, crafted in platinum and encrusted with a full circle of diamonds.