The Diamond Disruptor

Lark & Berry's Svet, the brand's lead piercer and stylist, tells us all about her luxury piercing experience utilising all of Lark & Berry's 100+ choices of lab-grown diamonds fine piercing jewellery. Learn about pain ratings for piercings, conch piercings, helix piercings, styling tips for what fine gold piercings work best for each ear location and more!

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On this episode, Lark Berry founder Laura Chavez joins us for her first ever in-depth interview! Laura comes to the pod fresh off being prominently profiled in a Daily Mail piece last week and tells Clark of how she's dealt with cultured diamonds controversies, her very earliest inspirations to start her disrupting jewellery brand and a new tech to make diamonds that sounds like something out of a scifi movie! For questions/press contact: [email protected]

On the Diamond Disruptor podcast, writer and host Clark Watts takes a continuing look at cultured diamonds as a sustainable option in luxury jewellery. Geared towards both industry novices and experts, the DD pod features interviews with jewellery brand leaders, analysts, scientists and more, as well as guests from other marketplaces who promote sustainable interests.

On this episode, show host Clark Watts congratulates Lark & Berry Lead Designer Emily Newman and Worldwide Head of Retail Svetlana Hristova on the re-opening of the London LB store post-lockdown. Then, the three discuss, in detail, just what goes into creating customers' dream bespoke engagement rings, as well as how to get a one-of-a-kind, showstopping awards show piece for celebrity clientele just right.

On the Diamond Disruptor podcast, writer and host Clark Watts takes a continuing look at cultured diamonds as a sustainable option in luxury jewellery. Geared towards both industry novices and experts, the DD pod features interviews with jewellery brand leaders, analysts, scientists and more, as well as guests from other marketplaces who promote sustainable interests.

"Darkness and Light on the Lake" is the latest (and last, for now) episode of The Diamond Disruptor podcast mini-series, "Sustainable Fashion: What You Need to Know," in which we talk to fashion brand leaders and experts who create clothes with environmentally-responsible materials.

On the Diamond Disruptor podcast, writer and host Clark Watts takes a continuing look at cultured diamonds as a sustainable option in luxury jewellery. Geared towards both industry novices and experts, the DD pod features interviews with jewellery brand leaders, analysts, scientists and more, as well as guests from other marketplaces who promote sustainable interests.

On this episode, we speak with Vanina Howan of @theecopreneurshow about her podcast profiling sustainable business leaders, the challenges sustainable brands face in fully implementing environmentally responsible practices and The Unschool, a unique program which helps aspiring fashion CEOs take steps to go green.

This episode is the first of a new series we're calling Sustainable Fashion: What You Need to Know. We'll be talking to fashion brand leaders and experts who utilise/support creating clothes with environmentally responsible materials. Here, we speak with @larelaxed designer Claire Hoppe about challenges sustainable brands face, what makes clothes sustainable, green washing, fast fashion and more.

On this episode, we examine how CULTURE has been affected by COVID-19, and how cultured DIAMONDS play an important role. We chat with Charlotte Metcalf, who was just named the editor of the 'Great British Brands' feature of the UK’s Country and Town House magazine - a premiere periodical examining culture and fashion. She's also the co-host of the 'Lockdown Culture' podcast, a renowned documentary filmmaker and associate editor of Country and Town House.

In this first episode of a two-part series on diamond mining controversies, we examine this past May’s heavily disputed report released by the DPA (Diamond Producers Association) claiming that mining is better for Earth than lab-creating diamonds. Part 1 features exclusive interviews with Anna-Mieke Anderson, CEO of MiaDonna and Company and Richard Garard, Secretary General of the IGDA.

JCK Las Vegas 2019, North America’s premiere jewellery expo, wrapped in June—and we at Lark & Berry are still reeling from a first place win in design for our Bow Collection. While we were at JCK, host Clark Watts talked to JCK Magazine editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky, diamonds industry marketing analyst Liz Chatelain (MVI Marketing) and a leading brand strategist from Altr created diamonds to find out where cultured diamonds are at in today’s market, how they got there… and where they’re going.