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2025 Wrapped: The Diamond Jewelry Moments That Broke the Internet
From red carpet moments and historic auctions to unique diamond discoveries and cultural events, discover the best natural diamond jewelry moments of 2025.
Published: December 17, 2025
Written by: Jane Asher
Anyone who has kept up with pop culture this year can agree that this was an exceptional year in diamonds, with a plethora of memorable jewelry moments of 2025. From several major celebrity engagements to the return of Kate Middleton to royal work, their diamonds certainly had their time to shine in the spotlight.
Red carpet style also kept the spotlight on diamonds, with many celebrities opting for major diamond looks throughout award show season and during glam film festivals like Cannes and Venice. Even the Super Bowl was chock full of natural diamond sparkle, thanks to Kendrick Lamar’s love of custom bling.
Meet the Author
- Jane Asher is a social media manager with a passion for pop culture.
- She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Washington University in St. Louis.
- As a journalist, her work has been featured in publications such as InStyle Magazine, Stylecaster, Martha Stewart Weddings and more.
It wasn’t just film and entertainment that saw incredible jewelry this year. From the baseball diamond to the football field, professional athletes are exploring their own diamond style more than ever, wearing sizable chains, diamond studs, and even grills both on and off the playing field.
Ahead, discover the best jewelry moments of 2025, and get ready for an even shinier 2026.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Zendaya Debuts Her Engagement Ring at the Golden Globes
Starting the year off on a sparkling note, Zendaya arrived at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards wearing a very conspicuous new piece of jewelry: A natural diamond engagement ring. It was later confirmed that Tom Holland proposed with an east-west set cushion-cut natural diamond engagement ring on a yellow gold band from British jewelry designer Jessica McCormack. The ring featured McCormack’s signature Georgian-style, button-back setting.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Bling
Kenrick Lamar’s jewelry was just as memorable as his performance at the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. Known to embed symbolism throughout his jewelry choices, the Pulitzer Prize winner wore a substantial diamond lowercase “a” chain necklace, rendered in the same font as the logo for his production company, “pgLang.”
The “a” pendant most likely is for “A-minor,” in homage to his lyrics from the chart-topping Drake diss track, “Not Like Us.” The piece has likely been designed by one of Lamar’s go-to jewelers Eliantte, responsible for the custom Jesus piece he recently wore to the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Lamar also wore two pins from Rahaminov Diamonds, including the Marquise-Cut Diamond Angel Wing brooch clipped to the side and the Half Moon Sunset Diamond Pin on the back of his head.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Archival Jewels Return to the Red Carpet
Young stars like Mikey Madison and Elle Fanning turned to old diamonds on the red carpet this year, wearing archival pieces from iconic houses like Tiffany & Co. and Cartier to the Oscars and beyond.
Madison accepted the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Anora this year wearing a vintage diamond necklace from the Tiffany & Co. Archives. The Edwardian era piece features a 3.9-carat Old European cut diamond at its center, proving that even after a century, true elegance never goes out of style.
Similarly, Elle Fanning wore a vintage Cartier High Jewelry diamond choker, circa 1958 at the 2025 Oscars.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Blue Diamonds Set Auction Records
The Mediterranean Blue diamond, a 10.03-carat Fancy Vivid Blue diamond, took center stage at Sotheby’s High Jewelry Sale in Geneva in May of this year for $22.5M. Discovered in 2023 at the Cullinan Mine in South Africa, it started life at a 31.94-carat rough and has now become the most coveted Fancy Vivid Blue diamond ever to appear at auction.
The Mellon Blue, a 9.51-carat Fancy Vivid Blue diamond, graded Internally Flawless, which once belonged to socialite and philanthropist Rachel “Bunny Mellon,” was sold for $25M at Christie’s Geneva. It carries a historic provenance and the kind of singularity that has captivated collectors all over the world.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Beyonce Brought Back the Diamond Bolo Tie with Cowboy Carter
From De Beers to Lorraine Schwartz, Beyoncé has given the diamond bolo tie her own spin throughout the Cowboy Carter tour and beyond. She wore a Messika yellow and colorless diamond bolo tie to the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week, and a classic slider bolo tie silhouette from Lorraine Schwartz with two enormous bezel-set pear-shaped diamonds in the center and two more dangling at the ends during the Cowboy Carter show in Paris and Los Angeles.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: The Backwards Diamond Necklace
This trend turns its back on convention by wearing a necklace drop down the back rather than the front of an outfit. Perfect to pair with a backless gown or a backwards cowl neck, many celebrities have successfully experimented with this look on the red carpet.
Michelle Yeoh and Margaret Qualley showed off their back necklaces at the 2025 Oscars from Chanel High Jewelry and Boucheron Fine Jewelry, respectively. Most notably, though, was Sabrina Carpenter’s 18.97-carat string of pear-shaped diamonds with a 50-carat D-flawless brilliant cut diamond sautoir pendant from Chopard, elegantly dangling down her back at the 2025 Grammys. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ariana Greenblatt, Taylor Russell, and Sarah Catherine Hook also wore the trend to various red carpets this year.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Isha Ambani’s 481-Carat Met Gala Necklace
Isha Ambani turned heads and nearly broke the internet with her incredible necklace from her “personal jewelry collection” at the 2025 Met Gala. Boasting over 481 carats of diamonds, Ambani had the piece made to replicate Cartier’s famed Toussaint Necklace. The jewel was also replicated for the 2018 film Ocean’s 8. Although the necklace no longer exists, Cartier was able to go back to its archives and used the original design drawing and photographs to recreate it for the movie.
Jacques Cartier designed the original necklace upon which the one created for the film is based in 1931. The Maharaja of Nawanagar was its recipient and it included what was described as “the finest cascade of colored diamonds in the world.” The central diamond was a 136.25 carat blue-white flawless gem, known as the Queen of Holland diamond.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: A$AP Rocky’s Diamond Umbrella from Briony Raymond
A$AP is no stranger to diamond jewels, often working with New York-based jeweler Briony Raymond on his blinged-out looks, and May’s Met Gala was no exception. The rapper wore a Briony Raymond three-stone diamond Ring, three estate brooches, an Art Deco diamond brooch, an antique diamond scroll brooch, retro diamond dress clips, a 1950s French diamond bracelet, and Briony Raymond diamond cluster earrings. But the best part of his ‘fit was a diamond umbrella, personally customized by Briony herself. Only the best for the co-chair of 2025’s event!
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Dakota Johnson’s Parade of Boucheron at the Cannes Film Festival
Dakota Johnson wore stunning pieces from Boucheron throughout her time at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Avoine diamond pave head jewel, the Vendôme Liseré stud earrings, and the Vendôme Liseré ring to the “Splitsville” photocall, the Serpent Bohème Solarité hoop earrings and Vendôme Liseré ring at the Women in Motion Dinner, and feather pave earrings to the “Highest 2 Lowest” premiere.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Kim Kardashian Wears 250 Carats of Diamonds at Balenciaga
Kim Kardashian walked the Balenciaga runway show in Paris, Demna’s final for the fashion house, wearing “an ode to Elizabeth Taylor,” according to Balenciaga. Her gown was inspired by Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and some of the jewelry was actually once owned by Taylor herself, on loan from Lorraine Schwartz.
Kardashian wore Taylor’s beloved Girandole earrings, a gift from her third husband, Mike Todd, paired with two custom-made natural diamond necklaces, inspired by the famous Taylor-Burton diamond and made by Schwartz, weighing a total of 250 carats.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Royal Provenance Soars at Auction
The Marie-Thérèse Pink diamond is a 10.38-carat kite-shaped fancy purple-pink diamond mounted by legendary jeweler JAR. Historians and jewelry experts believe this diamond once belonged to Marie Antoinette as it was catalogued in her daughter Marie-Thérèse’s estate, the diamond’s namesake. The $13.98M sale firmly establishes the Marie-Thérèse Pink diamond as one of the most important and talked-about diamonds ever to appear at auction.
Napoleon’s brooch, another piece with royal provenance, made a splash at Sotheby’s this November, selling for $4.4M, 22 times its original estimate.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Belly’s Petite Engagement Ring
Team Conrad girlies every audibly gasped when Belly Conklin of The Summer I Turned Pretty thrust her hand into her mom’s face, defiantly showing off her engagement ring and plans to marry Jeremiah. The Fizz Ring from Catbird features a 3mm round natural diamond and costs $298—probably cheaper than Jeremiah’s ill-fated Spring Break Trip to Cabo.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Diamonds Steal the Show at the Bezos Wedding
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Venetian wedding was a parade of VIP, billionaire guests, so of course, plenty of them wore some outstanding natural diamond jewelry. Kim Kardashian’s brown diamonds from Mousaieff, Kylie Jenner’s 30-carat diamond studs from Lorraine Schwartz, Karlie Kloss’s vintage diamond necklace from Briony Raymond, not to mention Lauren Sanchez’s new $4M, 30-40-carat oval-shaped engagement ring.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Georgina Rodriguez’s Engagement Ring Red Carpet Debut at Venice Film Festival
After nearly a decade together, Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez have made things official with a jaw-dropping 30-carat engagement ring. The oval-cut sparkler, a very on-trend cut for 2025, is set on a diamond-studded band, is worth an estimated $3 million, making it one of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings in history. The couple, who share two children and have built a life together across Madrid, Turin, Manchester, and now Saudi Arabia, have long been the subject of engagement speculation.
Shortly after the Instagram announcement, Rodriguez walked the red carpet at August’s Venice Film Festival, showing off her massive rock alongside natural diamond jewelry from Pasquale Bruni.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: New York Woman Discovers Her Own Engagement Ring Diamond in Arkansas
After three weeks of searching, Micherre Fox found a 2.3-carat natural diamond stone at the former recovery site, Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, that she has since turned into the ultimate personal treasure—her engagement ring.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Taylor Swift’s Antique Engagement Ring
Travis Kelce proposed to Taylor Swift this August in a fairytale-like rose garden with 10-carat antique, elongated cushion-cut diamond, set on a hand-engraved, yellow gold band. The style of the ring perfectly matches the vibe of the proposal—very Romeo and Juliet if they got a happy ending, a la Swift’s hit song, “Love Story.” The ring is worth an estimated $1M, and early speculation from Page Six cites Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry as the designer behind the ring.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Kate Middleton Returns to Royal Work in Tiaras
After recovering from her battle with cancer, Kate Middleton made a glamorous return to royal work wearing some truly incredible jewels, most notably the Oriental Circlet tiara during the German president’s state visit in December and the Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara for President Trump’s state visit to the UK in September.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Jennifer Lawrence’s Sotheby’s Jewels
During the press tour for her film Die My Love Jennifer Lawrence wore diamond jewelry that soon after the red carpets, hit the Sotheby’s auction block at their new location in the iconic Breuer building in NYC: A pair of diamond JAR earclips that sold for $508K, a diamond Suzanne Belperron brooch that sold for $53,540 and the diamond David Webb ‘Hot Dog’ necklace that sold for $44,450.
Best Jewelry Moments of 2025: Justin Jefferson Scores Touchdowns In Diamonds
Most NFL players keep their bling to the press conferences and pre-game walk-ups, but not Justin Jefferson, wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings. He’s been wearing two sizable diamond necklaces while on the field, attracting attention not just for his talent but for the serious sparkle you can spot even from the stadium’s nosebleeds.
