In the 1950s, the baguette became a defining feature of glamorous all-diamond jewellery. Since then, however, it has more often been set simply as shoulders to a classic single-stone diamond ring.

Baguette-cut diamonds set into white gold jostle together to create these earrings by Suzanne Kalan (available at Net-a-Porter, £880). Suzanne Kalan is one designer who has fallen under the spell of ...