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Sarah Jessica Parker backs lab-grown diamond brand Astrea

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker, best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw in ‘Sex and the City’, is teaming up with London-based lab-grown diamond brand Astrea to bring to life “her creative vision for the future of diamonds”. Parker, who shut her namesake footwear brand, SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker, last year, and has previously collaborated...

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De Beers to close lab-grown diamond brand, Lightbox

Diamond company De Beers Group has announced plans to shutter Lightbox, its lab-grown diamond (LGD) jewellery brand. The company confirmed the news in a press release, where it stated that it wished to instead reinforce its “commitment to natural diamonds” and thus had entered into discussions with potential buyers for the sale of certain...

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Jewellery brand Vashi acquired by Queensmith

Upmarket jewellery retailer Vashi, which fell into liquidation last month, has been acquired by London jeweller Queensmith’s parent company Hearts of London (Group) Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Vashi, founded by Vashi Dominguez, opened its first store on London's Piccadilly in 2016, and despite achieving sales of 100 million pounds in 2021 and...

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Myths and misconceptions about the diamond industry

There are two sides to every coin, or in the case of diamonds, four. As sales of man-made diamonds gathers momentum and its industry marketing them as the sustainable option for diamond jewellery, the UK’s Natural Diamond Council (NDC) is keen to bust some industry myths with alternative facts. First and foremost, not all laboratory-grown...

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Lab grown diamond industry to be worth 37 billion dollars by 2028

Responsible sourcing and sustainability regulations have fuelled the lab grown diamond market, which in 2022 was valued at 22.45 billion dollars and is forecast to grow to 37.32 billion dollars by 2028. No longer viewed as inferior, laboratory-grown diamonds are the real thing, created using similar methods as those that are mined. America’s...

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Kimai opens its first retail store in London

Digitally native and traceable fine jewellery brand Kimai, which offers lab-grown diamonds, has opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in London. Located at 24 Chiltern Street, London, the retail space offers Kimai’s range of 100 percent traceable lab-grown diamonds and recycled 18k gold jewellery, including earrings, necklaces, bracelets and...

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Swarovski rolls out lab-grown diamonds across the US

Swarovski has confirmed that it is rolling out its lab-grown diamond collection ‘Created Diamonds’ in 200 stores in the US and Canada over the next year and online from November. The news follows a successful pilot in key locations across the US, where the collections have exceeded sales expectations. The Austrian crystal house has been offering...

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Net-a-Porter to sell lab-grown diamonds with Kimai

Traceable fine jewellery brand Kimai is to become the first lab-grown diamond brand to be stocked on Net-a-Porter. Kimai, worn by the Duchess of Sussex and actress Emma Watson, creates high-quality jewellery with low impacts on people and the planet using lab diamonds grown using solar energy. Lab-grown diamonds are chemically and physically...

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Kimai and Alex Eagle launch capsule jewellery collection

Sustainable fine jewellery brand Kimai, worn by the Duchess of Sussex and actress Emma Watson, has launched its first design collaboration with Alex Eagle, placing traceability at the core. The 7-piece collection, designed by Alex Eagle, features earrings, necklaces and a ring, which have all been crafted by Kimai using lab-grown diamonds and...