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News Briefing: 28 September 2025
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A curated edit of this week's national and international jewellery news...
The Notting Hill set’s favourite jeweller
Jessica Diamond, 25 September 2025, The Times: Ming Lampson’s bold and colourful designs, combined with her technical brilliance, have earned her devoted fans. The only problem is that she makes just 70 pieces a year
Bang & Olufsen’s Beo Grace earbuds are what happens when jewellery and audio collide
Morgan Truder, 24 September 2025 for Shortlist: Bougie buds
The Royal Mint turns PCBs into gold jewellery
Robin Latchem, 23 September 2025 for Recycling International: Nearly 700 years after producing Britain’s first gold coins, the maker of the national currency is pioneering the recycling of gold from everyday electronic products.
Sarah Jessica Parker is Designing Diamond Jewellery – And it’s Coming to Dubai
Hafsa Lodi, 23 September 2025 for Vogue Arabia: Joining Astrea London as global creative director, the actress explains why lab grown diamonds are the sparkling – and sustainable – key to the future of fine jewellery
From Canvas to Gold: Shem’s New Collaboration with Nkoda Joyas
Art Plugged, 25 September 2025 for Art Plugged: Dalston-based painter Shem brings his expressionist language into jewellery, partnering with Basque sibling duo Nkoda Joyas on a jewellery capsule collection launching 12 October 2025.
Island Tails | Jeweller Catherine Best: 'I want to live life to the full'
ITV, 25 September 2025: In our next Island Tails, we walk with Guernsey jewellery designer Catherine Best as she shares how she manages business and life, while battling breast cancer.
5 Jewellery trends from London Fashion Week SS26 that you need on your radar
Lauren Ramsay, 23 September 2025 for Hello: From bolshy beads to retro florals and pops of colour, these are the jewellery trends that dazzled on the SS26 runways at London Fashion Week.
Bejewelled Delights: This Week’s Jewellery Moments To Note
Charlie Boyd, 23 September 2025 for Harpers Bazaar Arabia: From new boutiques to exhibitions and crave-worthy collections, here’s a round-up of this week’s jewellery highlights
The business of nostalgia: How Italian charm bracelets are becoming big again
Business Cloud, 23 September 2025: Fashion has always had a way of recycling itself. What was popular decades ago often returns with a new audience, fresh styling, and a modern business model.
Tributes paid as ‘dedicated and kind’ co-founder of Finnies the Jeweller dies
Chris Cromar, 23 September 2025: A statement said Ron Finnie 'will be deeply missed by all'.
Hatton Garden jewellery group looks to Brighton for its first UK store outside London
Daniel Face, 25 September 2025: A diamond jewellery business headquartered in London's famous Hatton Garden has taken a new retail unit in Brighton following a deal overseen by real estate adviser SHW.
Here’s what happens when Van Cleef & Arpels invites you to a jewellery launch as exquisite as a Bridgerton ball at King Charles III’s home in Scotland
Amrita Katara, 23 September 2025 for Tatler Asia: Three days at Dumfries House, where Van Cleef & Arpels revealed its latest botanical marvels among His Majesty King Charles’s rose gardens, proved that some fantasies do come true—especially when they involve mystery-set rubies, Highland dancers, and champagne served on silver trays
Surge in silver jewellery imports from Thailand spurs DGFT to impose strict restrictions
T C A Sharad Raghavan, 25 September 2025 for The Hindu: According to the DGFT, these restrictions have been introduced in light of the steep rise in the import of plain silver jewellery in the April-June 2025 quarter
Something Blue: The Most Exquisite High Jewels For Any Haute Bride
Peter Langer, 25 September 2025 for Harpers Bazaar Asia: Necklaces with sapphires, diamonds and tourmalines elegantly embrace the adage of something borrowed, something blue
Louis Vuitton’s latest high jewellery collection, Virtuosity, takes us on a creative odyssey
Lynette Koh, 22 September 2025 for Prestige Online: Louis Vuitton’s latest 110-piece high jewellery extravaganza, Virtuosity, takes us on a journey through technical brilliance and artistic savoir-faire.
How do you write about 200 years of jewellery history? Curator and expert Melanie Grant took on the challenge
Bernadette Morra, 24 September 2025 for The Globe and Mail: In the jewellery world, there are plenty of coffee-table books touting big luxury houses, historical guides on eras, books that spotlight a single style of jewellery and educational texts focused on stones and techniques. But there is nothing that covers the world of adornment the way The Jewelry Book does.
The Cartier Jewellery Institute opens its doors for the 2025 European Heritage Days
Richmont, 19 September 2025: From the 19th to the 21st of September 2025, the Cartier Jewellery Institute is opening its doors to the public for the fourth year running, offering the opportunity to discover Cartier’s exceptional jewellery craftsmanship and savoir-faire.
‘The atomic bomb of jewellery’: Why the brooch is back in fashion
Over the centuries, the brooch, invented to fasten garments, has become a glittering gem, a coded communication–an art mastered by Elizabeth II and a way to express personality.
Mary Miers, 24 September 2024 for Country Life: Honeysuckle, favoured bloom of Arts-and-Crafts designers, rarely features in gem-set jewellery, with the exception of tiaras.
Inside the sculptural and sensual philosophy of jewellery house Renisis
Mazzi Odu for Wallpaper: Sardwell, founder of jewellery house Renisis, draws on sculpture, travel and theatre to create pieces that fuse sensual form with spiritual resonance.
Responsible Jewellery Council Has Consumers In Its Sights
Kate Matthams, 18 September 2025 for Forbes: Kicking off today, the Responsible Jewellery Council’s (RJC) latest campaign has all the usual communications tools and glossy images needed to promote and educate around responsibility in the industry.
Artist recycling Royal Ballet shoes into jewellery
Emma Ruminski, 24 September 2025 for BBC: An artist has been recycling pointe shoes from the Royal Ballet and Opera by turning them into art.
Hannah Martin’s punkish jewellery gets ‘bigger and louder’
Hannah Silver, 24 September 2025 for Wallpaper: The jewellery designer adds to ‘The Perfect Drug’ collection with 28 new punkish pieces, bringing oversized hooks and clasps to the fore
