Miley Cyrus Ring 2012 image
Call it the trickle-down-effect for engagement ring trends — whenever a celebrity gets engaged and starts sporting a shiny new bauble, jewelers everywhere rush to craft similar rings and capitalize on the popular urge to sport the same jewelry as America’s pagan cult of entertainers or the U.K.’s pagan cult of inbred rich people, er, royalty.
Similarly, Kate Middleton’s sapphire engagement ring helped more people consider non-diamond center stones in their engagement rings. The buzz generated by celebrity trinkets serves as a boon to the entire jewelry market, setting trends and bringing in more business for the original designers, though it’s usually a discreet sort of business because nobody wants to admit that they want “the Miley Cyrus ring” to serve as an eternal token of their fidelity and devotion to their prospective lifemate.
