Selena Gomez’s Tiffany Ring at the 2026 Emmys Has a Love-Story History

A red-carpet jewellery story is most useful when it gives you more than a celebrity name and a carat count. At the 2026 Emmys, Selena Gomez wore Tiffany & Co. jewellery that included the house’s Sixteen Stone ring, a Jean Schlumberger design with a long history beyond the event itself.

Featured image: Selena Gomez at the White House. U.S. federal government photograph, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What is the Tiffany Sixteen Stone ring?

The Sixteen Stone ring is associated with Jean Schlumberger, the French jewellery designer whose work for Tiffany became known for highly dimensional, almost textile-like uses of precious metal and stones. Town & Country reported that Gomez wore the design as part of her 2026 Emmys jewellery, noting its connection to American jewellery history and to the wider Schlumberger archive.

For wedding and anniversary rings, the useful design lesson is the way repetition can create impact. A sequence of stones and sculptural metal can read as luxurious without depending on a single dominant solitaire.

Why the design feels different from a conventional eternity ring

A traditional eternity ring usually creates a continuous line of stones. The Sixteen Stone approach interrupts that rhythm with strong metal motifs. Visually, that gives the ring more architecture and makes the gold itself part of the design.

If you are comparing this kind of ring with a conventional eternity band, our eternity-ring guide explains the practical differences between full, three-quarter and half coverage, including sizing considerations.

What to borrow from the look

You do not need the exact Tiffany ring to take something useful from the idea. Look for bands where the metalwork is visible and intentional: crossed details, alternating shapes, spaced diamonds, sculptural bezels or patterned links. The point is not to imitate a celebrity piece literally. It is to notice why a design has visual character.

Source and further reading

This article was prompted by Town & Country’s report on Selena Gomez’s 2026 Emmys jewellery. Tiffany’s own archive and product information should be treated as the primary source for current specifications of any Tiffany design.