{"id":1465886,"date":"2026-01-16T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1465886"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:41:53","slug":"i-wear-it-on-my-middle-finger-inside-the-booming-market-for-divorce-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1465886","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Wear It on My Middle Finger\u2019: Inside the Booming Market for Divorce Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018I Wear It on My Middle Finger\u2019: Inside the Booming Market for Divorce Rings<\/h1>\n
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Peer through the window of Annoushka Ducas\u2019s London boutique in the evening, and you might spy women poring over diamonds and sipping Champagne. But they aren\u2019t congregating to peruse engagement rings or push presents, they\u2019re toasting the signing of divorce papers, and the prospect of turning the stones and settings (and emotional scars) of their wedding bands or engagement rings into a poignant new piece of jewelry. \u201cIt\u2019s fun rather than miserable!\u201d smiles Ducas, who has been hosting divorce ring parties in her boutiques for three years now, bringing together London\u2019s top divorce lawyers and their clients. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of laughing and cameraderie\u2026 it\u2019s really about bringing about a community together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emily Ratajkowski\u2019s set of divorce rings.<\/p>\n

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Ducas is just one of a host of jewelers responding to a growing appetite for divorce rings, fueled in part by the sizeable jewels sported by A-listers after they\u2019ve signed on the dotted line to singledom. Take Emily Ratajkowski, who back in March 2024, commemorated her divorce from her husband of two years, Sebastian Bear-McClard, with two platinum and 18-carat rings designed by Alison Lou, incorporating the pear-shaped and princess-cut diamonds from her toi et moi engagement ring. \u201cThe idea of divorce is a separation, so it was always going to be splitting the ring into two separate but complementary rings,\u201d the brand\u2019s founder, Alison Chemla, told Vogue<\/em>. The inspiration behind EmRata\u2019s trending pinky design? A toe ring worn by Rihanna.<\/p>\n

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Barbara Sturm\u2019s divorce ring design, by Jessica McCormack.<\/p>\n

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In January, original power stylist and newly inaugurated Real Housewife Rachel Zoe marked her split from her husband of over 20 years, Rodger Berman, with a jaw-dropping three-stone divorce ring designed by Ring Concierge, which transformed the huge cushion-cut diamond of her halo engagement ring. Elsewhere, celebrity dermatologist Barbara Sturm commissioned her Jessica McCormack divorce ring before her separation from husband Adam Waldman had even been finalised. \u201cOnce you\u2019ve made the decision, you\u2019re already there\u2014even if the paperwork isn\u2019t through,\u201d she says. Posting the final creation on Instagram in October 2025\u2014a chunky twisted gold ring with a pear-shaped diamond\u2014she namechecked EmRata as her inspiration.<\/p>\n

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After! Daisy Etruscan divorce ring, by Lylie.<\/p>\n

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Unsurprisingly, East London jeweler Rachel Boston\u2014who says she has been working on divorce ring commissions for the last four years\u2014has found her clients clamouring for bespoke designs that look anything but traditionally \u201cbridal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cClients are gravitating towards pieces that feel more grounded and everyday, like chunky bands, sculptural settings, and designs that can be worn as part of a daily uniform,\u201d she explains. \u201cSignet style rings and wide gold bands are popular.\u201d Chelsea-based jeweler Jessie Thomas agrees. \u201cWe see a lot of chunky yellow and white gold pieces, with heavy settings and large stones.\u201d Tania and Dima Nawbar, of fourth-generation Beirut-based jeweler Atelier Nawbar, also note the same affinity for the oversized. A recent divorce ring commission saw the central diamond and halo stones from a wedding and engagement ring transformed into a pebble-like cocktail ring, shimmering with bezel-set diamonds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Marketing director Madeleine Phillips\u2019s divorce ring, featuring eleven baguette-cut black diamonds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hadn\u2019t expected how often I\u2019d absently reach for my wedding rings without thinking, or how their absence would become an unwanted reminder of the struggle I was going through,\u201d says 32-year-old Madeleine Phillips. The East Sussex-based marketing director commissioned a divorce ring three months after her separation was finalised. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to repurpose my wedding or engagement rings. At that point, they felt too emotionally loaded, and looking back, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t try to bring a piece of my past into the present. I wanted something symbolic, that felt very intentional, but it needed to be new.\u201d Working with an online jeweler, Phillips commissioned a yellow gold ring set with baguette-cut \u201cdeliberately defiant\u201d black diamonds. \u201cIt has 11 stones, one for each year we were together. That wasn\u2019t something I set out to do, but once I saw it, the choice felt precise, rather than sentimental.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillips initially wore her divorce ring on her ring finger, before having it resized to fit her middle one. \u201cThat progression was always part of the plan I had for it, and the way the ring has evolved with me feels part of its story.\u201d Lylie\u2019s Eliza Walters has also noted commissions for rings designed to be worn on the middle finger, like chunky Etruscan-inspired settings, \u201cintentionally removing any visual or symbolic association with a traditional engagement ring.\u201d Barbara Sturm also designed her ring to sit on the middle of her hand. \u201cBut my 11-year-old daughter, Pepper, told me it looked cooler on my index finger,\u201d she says, smiling.<\/p>\n

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Art critic Victoria Comstock-Kershaw\u2019s wedding-turned-divorce rings.<\/p>\n

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Twice-divorced Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, an art critic, continues to wear both of her engagement rings stacked on her ring finger. \u201cI\u2019ve kept wearing after the divorce, which I\u2019m told is absolutely insane, but my logic was: I liked them enough at the time, and I continue to trust my taste in jewelers more than I trust my taste in men,\u201d she says. At her weddings, the 27-year-old had exchanged vows with rings she already owned: choosing first a green tourmaline and silver ring gifted to her by her grandmother, and then a diamond and lilac sapphire band from a now-defunct jeweler in Burlington Arcade that was originally a 21st birthday present to her mother, who gave it to her daughter when she turned 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cAesthetically, I find them immensely satisfying (I often get my nails done to match the first one),\u201d she says. \u201cSocially, they are simultaneously a good deterrent to flash at flirters (\u2018sorry, married!\u2019) and a great conversation starter with anybody who compliments them (\u2018what do you mean your second<\/em> husband?\u2019). I don\u2019t deep dive into the divorce aspect too much, as the rings already have so much history to them\u2026 the fact that they were used as witnesses to a few failed marriages is just part of their story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After! Divorce ring, by L\u2019Atelier Nawbar.<\/p>\n

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It doesn\u2019t have to be a ring, either. Barbara Sturm repurposed two small pear-shaped diamonds from her original engagement ring into earrings, while Annoushka and Rachel Boston have had enquiries into pendant necklaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cDivorce has a way of unsettling your sense of self. Change was going to be uncomfortable regardless, so I chose to mark it on my own terms, with a reminder of the version of me who chose decisiveness over doubt, at a point when that really mattered,\u201d says Phillips. \u201cNow, my ring feels more about confidence than recovery. I\u2019m complimented on it surprisingly often, which always makes me smile. Not because of what it represents to anyone else, but because it reminds me that I trusted myself when it mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/divorce-rings-trend-emily-ratajkowski-barbara-sturm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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