Some of this year’s top jewelry trends have been geared toward personal expression. Back in July, we noticed that atypical stones were all over the Autumn/Winter 2025 Haute Couture Week presentations. In September, Julia Roberts loaded up a tie with a colorful mélange of vintage brooches. The enduring ring-stacking vogue is geared as well toward demonstrating the curatorial eye of the wearer, as the New York Times reports.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, are two of the most high-profile practitioners of ring stacking. The former sported a three-ring combo, including a Lorraine Schwartz pavé-diamond eternity ring, on Netflix’sWith Love, Meghan. The latter, meanwhile, made headlines in September for packing five onto one finger, the most prominent being her Garrard sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring, which had belonged to Princess Diana.
Marion Fasel, an Introspective contributor, jewelry historian and author of the 2024 book The History of Diamond Engagement Rings: A True Romance, points out in the Times article that Taylor Swift is another influential fan of the stacked look, combining lower-cost rings with more expensive ones.
As with any more-is-more style choice, the strength of ring stacking is its elasticity: The wearer need not stick with any particular style —diversity is the whole point. “Rings are the most personal form of jewelry,” Fasel adds in the article. “People express their individuality with rings and convey all kinds of different things. Rings can be glamorous, bohemian, punk and many things in between.”
