After more than six years together, Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner confirmed on Tuesday that they were engaged. After congratulations started pouring in for the happy couple, the supermodel took to Instagram to thank everyone for the love and support—and, more importantly, to give fans a peek at her unbelievably gorgeous engagement ring.
“My phone is blowing up with the sweetest ??? messages from loved ones. This poor make up artist is gonna kill me,” Kloss captioned a video posted to her Instagram Story, in which she shows off her view of Beijing, China while getting her makeup done, before turning the camera on herself to blow a kiss (and offering a good look at the ring).
The supermodel’s ring features a massive center diamond set on what appears to be a diamond-covered band—or, in more technical terms, “a high-carat, cushion-cut diamond in a platinum solitaire setting, with a diamond pavé band,” per People. However you describe it, it’s stunning.
Kloss continued the engagement celebrations on her Instagram Story, posting a series of screenshots of her FaceTime sessions with friends and family.
“One of the best parts of ????…” she wrote, before sharing photos of her excitedly chatting with and showing off her ring to family, childhood best friends, and pals like Princess Beatrice and Serena Williams.
PHOTO: karliekloss
PHOTO: karliekloss
Kloss and Kushner shared the news of their engagement earlier this week, in a pair of Instagram posts. “I love you more than I have words to express. Josh, you’re my best friend and my soulmate. I can’t wait for forever together. Yes a million times over ?,” Karlie captioned a selfie in which she kisses her fiancé on the cheek.
Josh, meanwhile, uploaded a shot of Karlie, captioned simply, “fiancée ❤️.”
If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet in the last month, you know that Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are engaged…and both are really, really excited about it. (See: Her tweets, his gushing appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and their mututal Instagram PDA for proof.)
Grande is so excited, in fact, that she used her new music video as an excuse to show off her reported engagement ring in an entirely new setting.
On Thursday, the singer released the video for “Dance to This,” her first ever collab with Troye Sivan, and the entire thing is basically an ode to her new (probably wedding) bling. Sure, there are other people, places, and things featured in the four-minute clip (including a group of people who seem deeply unimpressed by the Grande/Sivan concert happening around them), but the pear-shaped ring is really the star of the show.
According to initial reports, the massive stone, which appears to be surrounded by diamonds and set in a platinum and diamond band, cost $93,000 and took nearly two weeks to make.
PHOTO: EMI
PHOTO: EMI
PHOTO: EMI
While it’s unclear how soon Davidson and Grande will be making the jump from the Internet’s most famous fiancés to actual husband and wife, it seems Grande has been looking forward to it for a long time. “Ariana has talked about marriage since she was 15,” a source told Entertainment Tonight shortly after the engagement was confirmed. “During her teen years, she was always very dreamy about a wedding and she used to call friends and talk about one day having that one special person.”
Looks like she’s found him, and he has A+ taste in engagement rings. Watch the full video—which includes multiple close-ups of the bling—below.
Both Jared Haibon and Ashley Iaconetti thought, “Perfect” when they laid eyes on the Neil Lane engagement ring he would propose to her with on June 17.
“After talking to production and Neil Lane, and figuring out what I wanted and what Ashley wanted, as soon as I saw a picture of it, I knew it was perfect,” says Jared.
The Bachelor couple, who announced they were officially dating in an instantly-iconic 44-minute video after years of will-they-won’t-they across a range of the franchise’s series, got engaged while filming the latest season of Bachelor of Paradise in Mexico earlier this summer. For this very important relationship milestone, Jared turned to the ABC-beloved jeweler to bring Ashley I.’s dream engagement ring to life. Before actually popping the question, though, Jared didn’t get much time alone with the Neil Lane ring—only about 15 minutes, he says: “I had pictures sent to me. The ring was being sent down to Mexico before I got there.”
PHOTO: Noel Vasquez
Other than Jared, the first person to see a picture of the ring was Ashley’s sister, Lauren. “I was at [Ashley’s] on Friday—Lauren knew we were getting engaged, and I received the first picture of the actual ring, and showed [it to her] in the kitchen while Ashley was in the bathroom,” he says. “Lauren was like, ‘Holy shit, that ring is perfect. I have to show you something.’ Earlier that day [she and Ashley] were getting their nails done—apparently, somebody who was engaged was sitting next to Ashley, and Ashley tried on her engagement ring that looked exactly like that, and Ashley was like, ‘This is the perfect ring. This is exactly what I would want.’ And it was the ring I was going to present to her two days later.”
It all went down shortly after Jared and Ashley I. arrived in Mexico to film Paradise. “They separated us before we actually went down there, and that was the first time I got the ring,” he remembers. “They gave me a couple minutes alone with it to really let it sink in… It was just a moment you always dream of as a guy, having the engagement ring, the moment before you propose. This is symbol of your love for Ashley, and you’re gonna get down on one knee and present this to her and ask her for her hand in marriage—all those things were just going through my head on the beach where we first met. It couldn’t have been more perfect.” (Ashley I. chimes in: “I love that Jared says things like, ‘This is what guys think of their whole life.’ Like, how sweet?!”)
When Ashley I. saw the platinum ring—which features a 2.4 carat radiant-cut diamond, according to People— she remembers thinking: “Welp, that’s it—that’s exactly what I requested.”
PHOTO: Noel Vasquez
Though the couple says they didn’t look to celebrity engagement rings for inspiration in the design (only the occasional Pinterest sweep, admits Ashley), Jared says he “looked at previous Bachelorette and Bachelor contestant rings for [an] idea of what I think looked good, what didn’t look good… It all came down pretty much to what Ashley wanted, and I talked to production about it.” The final product was a combination of her desires with his research—like the 86 full-cut diamonds forming a halo around the center stone, for instance: “She didn’t really want one, but they said, ‘Listen, I think this would look really good around the diamond,’ so I said alright. I Googled JoJo [Fletcher]’s ring, because I think she doesn’t have a halo, but Rachel [Lindsay]’s does—so I was comparing, and I thought it looked a lot better with the halo, so I said, ‘Put that on.'”
In the end, Ashley thinks he made the right call. “The first thing he said was ‘I know it has a halo, I know you didn’t want a halo…,'” she recalls. “I was like, ‘Believe me, it’s just fine!'”
Oh, and as for the wedding? They’re thinking “within the next fourteen months”—next summer, ideally. Yes, they want a beach-y wedding. (“Not Paradise beach-y, like sailboat-beach-y,” says Ashley. “I would never get married in a cold season.”) No, they don’t know if it’ll be televised yet. (“We have no idea,” explains Jared.) If it’s anything like their The Story of Us entry, we’ll definitely be tuning in. Until then, Paradise!
At this point, it seems like Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are engaged. Have they confirmed the news themselves? No, but Grande’s out here posting cloud emojis and “liking” tweets from fans congratulating her on the engagement, which is as close to a confirmation as we’re probably going to get. (Her reps, for what it’s worth, didn’t respond to our request for comment.) For someone who’s typically transparent with her fans, Grande’s being quite cryptic about this rumor.
One thing she can’t hide, though, is the giant, sparkly teardrop-shaped ring on her left finger. TMZ’s reporting that this piece of jewlery is, in fact, Grande’s engagement ring. The outlet values it at around $93,000 and says it took approximately two weeks to complete. Davidson reportedly commissioned New York City jeweler Greg Yuna to make the ring “especially” for Grande.
But is all that true? The report’s coming from unnamed sources, so take it with a grain of salt. However, pictures don’t lie: Grande’s been wearing this ring—or a ring that looks just like it, at least—for days now. She was mostly recently spotted wearing it on Monday night (June 11) at Disneyland, mere hours after news broke of her and Davidson’s engagement. The Daily Mail has the pics of that.
You can also clearly see the rock in selfies Grande took with fans. It’s honestly bigger than Space Mountain.
And its presence on Grande’s finger dates back even further. Below, check out a photo of Grande performing at Wango Tango on June 2, the ring in question fully in sight.
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Here she is posing with a fan at the same show. See what’s visible at the bottom of this pic? Just, ya know, a maybe-engagement ring worth more than my entire life.
PHOTO: Getty Images
Think about this for a second. Let’s say this is actually Grande’s engagement ring. If June 2 is the first time she was spotted wearing it, that would mean she and Davidson got engaged just three days after they made their relationship Instagram official on May 30. “The chamber of secrets has been opened …,” Davidson captioned the photo, below, which many took as a confirmation he and Grande were together.
Three days, people. Three days from, “We’re dating” to “We’re engaged!” That’s either a short or long amount of time, depending on how you look at it. On the one hand, I have dishes in my sink that are three days old. You’ve probably had three day-long Netflix binges where you virtually accomplished nothing.
But on the other hand: In three days, Ariel from The Little Mermaid turned into a human, made Prince Eric fall in love with her, and defeated a sea witch. A lot can happen in three days—or a little. So Grande and Davidson deciding to tie the knot in that span of time isn’t totally a leap.
Grande’s fans can’t get enough of this theory. Below, just a few of their reactions:
The “heist movie” genre is frustratingly male-focused, with titles like Ocean’s Eleven and The Sting dominating public consciousness. However, these films really need to bow down to all the female heist movies and TV shows that don’t receive enough love. Women have been staging robberies in pop-culture for decades, but they don’t get the same badass badges their male counterparts do. From Y2K classics like Sugar & Spice to more recent movies like The Bling Ring and the forthcoming Ocean’s 8—which is in theaters June 8—here are eight times women made (fictional) illegal money moves on screen.
When it comes to certain fashion trends, it can feel like a slow burn: For a while, they’ll exist on the periphery of what’s considered “realistic” or “wearable”—their existence is acknowledged, but it’s rarely implemented into one’s wardrobe. That’s how I felt about Matrix-esque patent; ditto for Birkenstock-esque sandals, when Phoebe Philo first made the case for them at Céline back in spring 2013. If I wait long enough, though, the aspects of the item that feel unpalatable to me—that, though runway-approved, would be hard to explain to my relatives—start to fade away. And before I know it, I’ll spend hours searching for the right one to buy myself, a good two seasons late. (Though, usually, by this point, there are plenty of affordable distillations of it everywhere.)
This is a very long-winded explanation for why I may spend my summer in toe-loop sandals. Yes, I mean those shoes that have some sort of ring detail around the big toe. And yes, I’m serious.
I mentioned this in a pitch meeting, and was met with a not-unexpected dose of skepticism—a mix of furrowed brows and, ‘… really?’’s from colleagues. I explained how I kept seeing them on Instagram, which led me to believe they would soon become A Thing. Sure, they already have a runway precedent—Philo’s Céline, Alexander Wang, and Tibi had already endorsed the trend in past collections. But having the endorsement of well-dressed bloggers and editors , as well as a proliferation of options courtesy of indie labels, meant it was gaining popular support. Plus, not too long ago, we were unsure about whether things like corset tops and PVC clothing would catch on… and, well, look at how far we’ve come.
Humor me, reader, as I embark on this quest to convince my co-workers (and, okay, maybe even myself) that I’m not totally off on this prediction. See the 20 toe-loop sandals ahead for further proof that these shoes will be all over your feed in a few week’s time.
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