Kim Kardashian Reveals Who Will Get Her Engagement Ring from Kanye West

Kim Kardashian has revealed her plans for her cherished 15-carat engagement ring from ex-husband Kanye West: it’s destined for her eldest daughter, North.

During a recent episode of The Kardashians, the reality star, 44, revealed that she still possesses her first engagement ring from West, 47, designed by famed celebrity jeweler Lorraine Schwartz.

It was notably the only piece of jewelry that she opted to leave behind during her ill-fated trip to Paris in 2016 – a decision that, in hindsight, proved remarkably prescient. The Skims founder was attending Paris Fashion Week when thieves broke in late one night and stole over $10 million of jewelry from her apartment at the Hotel de Pourtalès.

“My first one that I got engaged with Kanye [was] a cushion cut, and that was the only piece of jewelry that I owned that I didn’t take to Paris,” Kardashian said, referring to the brutal burglary. “And so that one I’m going to give to Northie because she was with me when I got engaged,” she said on the show. “And she held it after and I took a photo. She was just a few months old.”

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On Kardashian’s 33rd birthday in October 2013, West proposed with the custom-designed Lorraine Schwartz 15-carat diamond ring after the couple welcomed their first child, North West, that June. Mere months before the Paris incident, the rapper upgraded his then-wife’s ring with a 20-carat emerald-cut sparkler, also designed by Schwartz. However, Kardashian also said that she considers her original diamond engagement ring to be the “most important” of all her jewelry.

In the same episode, Kardashian recounted a time when West warned her against wearing both rings simultaneously, fearing it would make her a target for robbery, a chilling foreshadowing of the events that would unfold. The star recalled a moment when her then-husband cautioned her about wearing both rings in public after he came across a friend’s Instagram post where she did just that.

“Kanye saw it and went, ‘Don’t you ever wear both of your rings at the same time. Are you looking to get robbed?’” she remembered.

The Paris robbery significantly impacted Kardashian, leading her to scale back on wearing extravagant expensive jewelry. She now prefers to borrow pieces rather than own them, a pragmatic approach born from a traumatic experience.

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In 2019, Kardashian shared an Instagram post explaining the return of her “stolen” ring. Schwartz created a replica of her original engagement sparkler, which she occasionally borrows.

Kardashian’s decision to gift the ring to her eldest daughter is an insight into North, who occasionally wears pieces from her father’s wardrobe that bear a similar level of significance, like the Pastelle varsity jacket she wore on a subsequent trip to Paris Fashion Week in July 2022.

It wasn’t just any garment from her dad’s archive, either. The musician wore the same cobalt blue jacket to the 2008 American Music Awards, where he won Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album as well as Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist. What’s more, the Pastelle line itself was also his first true foray into the fashion world, even though it never came to fruition.

Pastelle pieces are rare and hard to come by these days, and ultimately, the label fell under the control of one of West’s creative partners, Ian Dior, according to GQ. In 2022, a medium-sized version of the Pastelle jacket that North was photographed in sold for $10,000 online. A month later, Kardashian reached out to Justin Reed, the owner of the high-end consignment shop, and purchased the same jacket as a surprise for North before their mother-daughter trip to Paris.