Love tokens: among luxury jewelry, which are the most popular?
Have you thought about the most famous love tokens? From engagement rings to gifts for women, here are the most famous for tradition
To say "I love you" there are many ways. To reveal one's feelings to someone else also.
But what is that modus operandi that unites everyone, but really everyone, for a declaration of love? The classic token of love, the object that is inextricably linked to desires and feelings. We are, of course, talking about theengagement ring, the pledge that can take many forms and can be given on a variety of occasions. Let's take a look together at some historical background that has made it an undisputed symbol of true love.
Early historical background
The first historical mention of a ring given as a gesture of love is found in 1477, when Maximilian of Austria gave a gold ring set with a diamond to his betrothed, Mary of Burgundy. At that moment his gesture served as a lesson for centuries to come by inventing, in this way, the solitaire.
Years later it was Charles Lewis Tiffany who made diamonds the undisputed object of desire, putting them at the top of the wish list of women around the world.
The jeweler in 1886 presented the first ring with an "invisible" six-prong setting: the setting elevated the brilliant by highlighting its brilliance and crowning it the quintessential love jewel.
Among the first women to fall under its spell were First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who wrote to her husband Franklin:
"You couldn't have found a ring I liked better."
A diamond is forever
However, we owe to another American the stroke of genius that turned solitaires into an object of desire for girls of every generation. We are talking about copywriter Frances Gerety, who in 1947 actually invented for director De Beers the slogan "A diamond is forever," the song sung by Merilyn Monroe.
Nothing could be truer, nothing more apt. This is proven by the fact that rings have become the quintessential love jewelry, true milestones in the history of modern and contemporary costume.
The history of diamonds as tokens of love continues in the Royal Family and passes through celebrities, passing on the story again and again.
From Lady Diana to Celeb socialites
The first token of love, by notoriety, is identified with Lady D 's sapphire, and today we find it on the ring finger of the new Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton.
Few remember, however, that in 1947, in announcing her engagement to Prince Philip, the then Princess Elizabeth also showed her three-carat round diamond to the press, thus helping to spread the solitaire fashion.
Another legendary ring is the one that Rainier III gave to Grace Kelly in 1956: a 10.47-carat diamond that the future princess of Monaco demanded to keep on her finger in her last film, High Society.
Rings as an undisputed pledge of love then landed among Hollywood stars, where Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry remains unforgettable, tokens of love collected by the diva in her eight marriages: one above all, the 33.19-carat diamond named after her, a gift from Richard Burton in 1968.
Contemporary diamonds
In the present day we can mention the 8.5-carat ring Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez for her second marriage proposal. On Beyoncé's finger, on the other hand, gleams an 18-carat diamond given to her by Jay-Z.
We can infer, therefore, that the engagement ring is, even today, the symbol of the pledge of love that is hard to give up.
