Diamond sellers have a new marketing tactic: Convincing women to buy their own diamonds. Women, they say in a campaign called "For Me, From Me," deserve to splurge on themselves with diamond jewelry ...

For decades, couples were told to value a certain kind of rarity. The jewelry designer Kindred Lubeck, with the help of her ...

Leave it to Jennifer Lopez to mark her engagement with a diamond fit for an actual queen. “That’s a pretty one,” says London Jewelers’ vice president Scott Udell of J.Lo’s magnificent, emerald-cut ...

A ring from one of the best engagement ring brands is arguably one of the bigger and more intentional purchases one might make. A beautiful symbol of love and commitment, the jewelry piece holds ...

California divorced mom Marissa Forrester's 1.5 carat diamond engagement ring had a retail value of $10,000 in 2012. Eleven years later in 2023, she sold it online for a quarter of that — $2,500. “I ...

Click here to read more from Slate’s wedding issue. In 1919, De Beers experienced a drop in diamond sales that lasted for two decades. So in the 1930s it turned to the firm N.W. Ayer to devise a ...

They're sparkly, sure, but so is cubic zirconium at a fraction of the price. Tradition? Don't kid yourself: that's just a myth propagated by De Beers. And besides, no one is asking you to give up ...

When Sotheby's first announced the auction of a 24.78-carat fancy intense pink emerald-cut diamond with rounded corners, flanked by two shield-shaped white diamond side stones and set in platinum, in ...

When it comes to engagement rings, women increasingly are eschewing the traditional diamond solitaire for something more personal and even provocative. Here, designers offer a small sampling of ...