Jackie Kennedy's dazzling engagement ring from JFK featured a 2.88-carat diamond and a 2.84-carat emerald, set in a toi et moi design. In the end, it was actually her future father-in-law, Joseph Kennedy, who picked out the ring from Van Cleef & Arpels's Fifth Avenue store in New York
Given her status as a style symbol, it's nothing unexpected that Jackie Kennedy's stunning wedding band has given motivation to innumerable ladies throughout the long term. The toi et moi plan from French gem specialist Van Cleef and Arpels included a 2.88-carat precious stone and a 2.84-carat emerald, both emerald-cut, on a band of roll cut emeralds and jewels.
Toi et moi — which deciphers as "you and me" and elements two gemstones settled next to each other — has partaken in a flood in fame of late, with any semblance of Ariana Grande, Kylie Jenner, and Megan Fox all brandishing the heartfelt plan. Yet, the style really goes back hundreds of years, with Napoleon Bonaparte proposing to Josephine de Beauharnais with one of every 1796.
Rather uncommonly, Jackie wasn't shot wearing a ring when the couple's commitment was first declared in 1953. As per author Jay Mulvaney, she told columnists at that point: "I haven't one yet. Jack and I have checked out at many them. Some I could have done without and others weren't the right kind."
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Jackie Kennedy's stunning wedding band from JFK highlighted a 2.88-carat precious stone and a 2.84-carat emerald, set in a toi et moi plan. Boston Globe/Getty Pictures
Eventually, it was really her future father by marriage, Joseph Kennedy, who chose the ring from Van Cleef and Arpels' Fifth Road store in New York. Vanity Fair's Edward Klein depicted how goldsmith Louis Arpels' better half Hélène, who knew Jackie, assisted the previous representative to the UK with picking the now-renowned wedding band.
Not hesitant to put her own stamp on the plan, the Principal Woman really updated the piece almost 10 years after their wedding, supplanting the loaves with flashier marquise-slice precious stones that tightened to adjust cut jewels as an afterthought. "The new ring said something and denoted Jackie's developing fearlessness by and by, and in her family's job on the world stage," English Vogue's gems chief Rachel Garrahan says of the redesigned plan.
Obviously, the toi et moi ring wasn't the main powerful piece that had a place with Jackie. On her later commitment to Aristotle Onassis, the delivery tycoon gifted her a colossal 40-carat Lesotho III precious stone ring from Harry Winston, which sold at closeout for $2.6 million out of 1996. In the mean time, it was Kennedy's supposed "swimming ring" that motivated little girl in-regulation Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's jewel and sapphire commitment band.
