Everybody’s flashing ICE these days. Mark Hiam’s words … soon it’ll be ghetto, like LV bags. Anyway, in the meantime you gotta keep up with the Gateses, no? So just how big or expensive is enough these freakin days?

Apparently even East Village hipsters can at least afford a super vintage 1-carat. One 31-year old freelance art director clocked in with a “1920’s 1.25-carat oval diamond ring set in an embroidered white-gold band that he’d bought from Doyle and Doyle on the Lower East Side.”

You know you’re not that creative. So I guess that means compensate with size if you can’t find a 1920’s gem.

And so financier counterpart as highlighted in the NY Observer, a “director” at a capital management firm (???) opted for a “1.6-carat round-cut, platinum-set center diamond flanked by two smaller stones.”

Blue Nile prices that at ~$6-20k, but it’s probably way more than that in a real store. Damn, son.