The sighting: Taylor Swift recently revealed the upcoming release of her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl. Shortly after the announcement, Swift revealed the glamorous Life of a Showgirl album cover – an extremely covetable, extraordinarily bejeweled look – and a series of show-stopping editorial photos taken to promote the album.
The jewels: Much of the sparkle from the album cover comes from Swift’s crystal-embellished Area dress, but there are plenty of actual diamonds in play! The singer is wearing both an 18K white gold domed diamond stretch bracelet by Zydo Italy (19.25 TCW) valued at $62,000 and a 17-carat vintage diamond and colored diamond bracelet from Stephanie Gottlieb.
In other photos from the shoot, also released on Instagram, Swift wears even more jewelry:
- Zydo Italy diamond chandelier earrings (18.20 TCW) worth $78,000.
- Etho Maria earrings with rubies in black rhodium-dipped rose gold (38.88 TCW) worth
$51,700.
- A Le Vian ring in white gold with diamonds valued at $2,598.75.
- A pair of Anabela Chan diamond cushion wing stud earrings valued at $2,790.
- A pair of matched, multi-row Lorraine Schwartz cuffs that InStyle says are worth approximately $350,000 (see second Instagram embed).
For those keeping track: Yes, that’s almost $1 million in jewels total.
(Pictured: jewels by Zydo Italy, Etho Maria, Le Vian and Anabela Chan.)
According to WWWJewels, images from this photo shoot also included custom Lorraine Schwartz earrings with diamonds, pink sapphires and pearls (price unknown), a custom Lorraine Schwartz bracelet and an unidentified pink pearl ring.
The trends: The major trend here is bracelets: They’re stacked, they’re matched, they’re worn solo, and they are EVERYWHERE. Bracelets were already big in 2025, and this pretty much ensures that the trend won’t be going anywhere soon.
Beyond bracelets, we have statement earrings and diamonds, diamonds, diamonds!
What do we think? This is spectacular. The outfits are so much fun and so extravagant, and I love that the jewelry matches that energy.
I would have loved to see some authentic Art Deco vintage jewels to channel that old-school Ziegfeld Follies kind of showgirl glam, but Swift and her team decided to keep it (mostly) modern and I respect that, because it looked amazing.
I must say, though, that I wish Swift were wearing earrings on the album cover! I assume that they didn’t want to distract from her face when there was already so much happening in the frame. But there is so much sparkle in this shoot overall that I will allow the bare lobes.
Judgement: 13,000/10 because I’m not a hardcore Swiftie but I love when T. Swift embraces her love of sparkle.
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