Taylor Swift and Stars Mix Minimalist Accents With Statement Jewels at iHeartRadio Awards

The most-studied piece of jewelry at the Dolby Theatre on March 26 never left its setting. Taylor Swift's engagement ring from Travis Kelce, an old mine-cut diamond by Kindred Lubeck for Artifex Fine and reportedly valued at $1.5 million, made its awards-show red carpet debut at the 13th annual iHeartRadio Music Awards — and it arrived as part of a jewelry strategy that defined the whole evening: build the look around a single extraordinary stone, then let everything else play a supporting role.

Swift came in a mint green Wiederhoeft corset and miniskirt, styled by Joseph Cassell. Her supporting pieces were chosen with architectural care. A Spinelli Kilcollin tennis bracelet, a Nak Armstrong ear cuff, a Selim Mouzannar ring, and a pair of 18k yellow gold, diamond, and tourmaline drop earrings by Dena Kemp rounded out the look. That last ombré set is valued at $36,000. The Spinelli Kilcollin bracelet featured all the colors of gold: white, yellow, and rose, a rare mixed-metal move that read as restrained rather than busy precisely because it sat alone on her wrist. The Selim Mouzannar piece is the Beirut Rosace ring, an 18k rose gold design featuring a cluster of three floral diamonds, currently available for $11,070, handmade in Beirut. Each Dena Kemp piece is one of a kind, with no two pieces the same.

Swift won a record seven awards, including Artist of the Year. But the ear stack was the jewelry moment most worth reproducing. The Nak Armstrong cuff at the helix combined with the Kemp tourmaline drops at the lobe creates a complete ear story from just two pieces: the cuff adds height and structure while the drop pulls the eye downward and elongates the neck, with no additional piercings required. For a daytime version, a fine gold wire cuff paired with a simple bezel-set diamond drop achieves the same geometry at a fraction of the cost.

Miley Cyrus, who accepted the Innovator Award, wore a sharp all-black Hermès leather pea coat and coordinating trousers from the house's Fall/Winter 2025 collection. Stylist Bradley Kenneth secured four diamond rings, a matching bracelet, and $13,000 hoop earrings from Marli. The diamond jewelry from Marli came from the CLEO, AVENUES, and TIP-TOP lines, totaling approximately $58,000 in pieces. The sparkle stretched down to Cyrus's right ankle, where a slim, diamond-encrusted band sat just above the point of her pumps. Against the cropped hem of the leather trousers, it landed as a single fine glint of light: the daintiest piece in her entire repertoire, and the one most borrowed from the minimalist vocabulary.

The night's most repeated motif was the meaningful personal ring worn as the sole statement on one hand, with deliberately restrained companions elsewhere. Both Swift and Cyrus anchored their engagement rings this way, a coincidence of styling philosophy that felt less like coincidence and more like quiet consensus: that the most interesting jewelry in the room is always the piece that already carries a story.