Is buying a diamond a smart financial move? Many believe mined diamonds are an investment, but the reality is different. In this episode, we discuss: ✔️ The resale value myth—do mined diamonds really hold their price? ✔️ Why lab-grown diamonds offer better value for buyers. ✔️ How custom jewelry makes for a smarter investment. ✔️ The future of fine jewelry—where is value really shifting? 💡 Before you buy a diamond, make sure you know the truth about its value ..read more

How do diamonds actually form? For billions of years, nature has been creating them deep underground under intense heat and pressure. But today, scientists have learned to grow diamonds in a lab—using the exact same process, only much faster. In this episode, we explain: ✔️ How diamonds form naturally vs. in a lab. ✔️ The two high-tech methods used to create lab-grown diamonds. ✔️ Why lab-grown diamonds are identical to mined diamonds—down to the atomic level. ✔️ How lab-created diamonds are becoming the preferred choice for luxury jewelry. 💡 If you’ve ever wondered whether lab-grown diamonds ..read more

For decades, mined diamonds dominated the fine jewelry world, promoted as symbols of status, love, and exclusivity. But now, lab-grown diamonds are changing everything. Major celebrities, red carpet events, and luxury brands have all embraced them—but why? In this episode, we break down: ✔️ How lab-grown diamonds went from niche to mainstream. ✔️ Why major jewelers and high-end designers are making the switch. ✔️ The massive price difference—and what that means for consumers. ✔️ Why lab-grown diamonds are the new standard for fine jewelry. 💡 Are lab-grown diamonds a trend or the future? Tune i ..read more

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! Please SUBSCRIBE, rate and review. Thanks for listening! For questions/press contact: Clark@larkandberry.com ..read more

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: Clark@larkandberry.com On the Diamond Disruptor podcast, writer and host Clark Watts takes a continuing look at cultured diamonds as a sustainable option in ..read more

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 novic ..read more

"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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read 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 ..read more