Kris Averi’s Prism Thorn ring celebrates queer joy and Pride visibility

Kris Averi’s Prism Thorn ring arrived with a built-in act of giving: 25% of profits from its rainbow sapphire and black spinel versions goes to Heritage of Pride through June 30. Debuting on June 16, the ring lands squarely in Pride month, where its sharp silhouette reads as both adornment and declaration.

The rainbow version is the one that does the talking first. It uses angel-cut, octahedral, lab-grown flame fusion sapphires in a ROYGBIV colorway, then reverses them, face-down and point-up, to form a crown-like profile. That choice gives the piece its protection-jewelry charge: instead of hiding the stones in a conventional setting, Kris Averi turns their pointed geometry outward, so the ring flashes like a small piece of armor each time the hand moves.

Kris Harvey, Kris Averi’s founder and creative director, worked with lapidarist Oke Millett to create the ring, and the collaboration shows in the precision of the form. Kris Averi says the design draws on prisms, light, and the mysticism of the pyramid as a symbol of strength, ascension, and power. The result is not soft rainbow jewelry in the usual sense. It is thorned, sculptural, and intentionally hard-edged, with color used as a signal rather than decoration.

The brand also offers the Prism Thorn ring in black spinel, a darker counterpoint that keeps the same angular language while shifting the mood toward shadow. Kris Averi describes the piece as edgy, sculptural, and unapologetically bold, and the description fits the architecture as much as the styling. The reverse-set stones create a flash of brightness from every angle, but the underlying message stays protective: visibility here is not passive.

That message is sharpened by the beneficiary. Heritage of Pride is the nonprofit behind New York City’s official LGBTQIA+ Pride events, and it says it works toward equality for all LGBTQIA+ people through events rooted in Stonewall and funded by community contributions. By directing proceeds to that mission through June 30, Kris Averi ties a finely engineered jewel to the civic and cultural infrastructure of Pride itself.