On Tuesday, Prada introduced a suite of fine jewelry products made with lab-grown diamonds.
hether you’ve spent hours in a jewelry store or never set foot inside one, you know what kind of diamond you’d like to see on your finger or around your wrist. You may know nothing about gems or the history of jewelry design, but you probably already have opinions on items you may never buy or may only receive a few times in your life. But the latest news in diamonds is more uncertain: the lab-grown diamond. Let’s get this out of the way: We aren’t talking about cubic zirconia.
But lab-grown gems are one of the jewelry world’s great contentions — both because of the industry’s obsession with provenance and because of consumer confusion about what the stones are. The conversations echo tensions around lab-developed alternatives to meat or fabrics, Arbitrary notions, including rules about how many months of one’s salary should be spent on an engagement ring, persist around diamonds,
Why? The jewelry industry is one of the world’s “most secretive, in a lot of ways. It’s very closed doors. Over 200 years, the techniques haven’t changed a lot,” Iwata said. “It hasn’t been subjected to as much scrutiny, if you will, as fashion because of the fast-fashion element. Not a lot of brands are taking bold steps to really try to make systemic change in the industry.”
As Prada sees it, the house’s use of the stones is less about declaring a stake in the natural versus lab-made gems debate, but about reimagining what is possible in jewelry design when the parameters of nature are removed from the equation.A mined diamond is the result of billions of years of heat and pressure exerted on carbon in the Earth’s mantle, which turns that carbon into crystal.
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