Taylor Swift spotlights antique jewelry at Toy Story 5 premiere

Taylor Swift arrived at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on June 9 with a childhood Toy Story VHS signed by Tim Allen, Tom Hanks and Joan Cusack, and the jewelry told the same story as the prop. Her premiere look turned nostalgia into a lesson in how to spot true antique jewelry versus pieces that only borrow the language of the past.

The clearest antique signal was her elongated old mine-cut engagement ring by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry. Old mine cuts are prized for their softer, hand-cut character, with broader facets and a less engineered sparkle than modern rounds, and the engraved gold setting matters just as much as the stone. Hand engraving, rather than machine-finished polish, gives the ring the sort of surface life collectors look for, and Sotheby’s has already linked that design to renewed attention on antique-cut stones and hand-engraved settings.

Swift doubled down on the period read with an antique Victorian diamond horseshoe pendant from Sophie Jane Jewels, a piece she had worn earlier in April. The horseshoe shape played like a clean Jessie reference, but it also carried a country-era echo for Swift herself as her debut album turns 20 in 2026. Around that anchor, the rest of the look blended genuine sparkle with newer jewelry that understood the assignment.

INSTORE identified Selim Mouzannar’s Gemma ring, Miraki’s oval tennis bracelet and Le Vian Couture earrings in the mix, with prices that made the point clear. The Selim Mouzannar ring was listed online for $5,000 to $10,000, the Miraki bracelet started at $3,380 and the Le Vian earrings were listed at $11,797.50. Those earrings were contemporary pieces, but their long lines and symmetry gave them a strong Art Deco feel, the kind of geometry that reads vintage without pretending to be old.

Swift changed into a yellow Oscar de la Renta gown for a performance after wearing an Erdem Fall and Winter 2026 mini dress on the carpet, then sang “I Knew It, I Knew You” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” with Randy Newman. She has said the new song was inspired by Jessie after an early screening, and Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5 centers on Woody, Buzz, Jessie and Lilypad, a new high-tech tablet character. The pieces most worth collecting are the Kindred Lubeck ring and the Victorian horseshoe pendant, because their antique cuts, provenance and hand work cannot be faked at scale; the Mouzannar ring, Miraki bracelet and Le Vian earrings are the parts of the look that can be recreated at far lower price points through shape, setting and proportion alone.