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Engagement ring trends for 2026

Somebody notices what celebrities wore last year, calls it a forecast, and moves on. What is happening in 2026 is more interesting than that, because the shift is being driven by a change in the price of the raw material rather than by taste.

Engagement ring trends for 2026

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Somebody notices what celebrities wore last year, calls it a forecast, and moves on.

What is happening in 2026 is more interesting than that, because the shift is being driven by a change in the price of the raw material rather than by taste.

When the centre stone gets cheap, everything downstream of it moves, and that is precisely what has happened.

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Somebody notices what celebrities wore last year, calls it a forecast, and moves on. What is happening in 2026 is more interesting than that, because the shift is being driven by a change in the price of the raw material rather than by taste. When the centre stone gets cheap, everything downstream of it moves, and that is precisely what has happened.

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