THE TRAILBLAZERLaura Chavez, 37, set up Lark & Berry (larkandberry. co. uk), offering fine jewellery made exclusively with lab diamonds, in July 2018.
She lives with partner Erik. ‘I’ve always loved jewellery, but never used to buy diamonds,’ explains Laura. After seeing the movie Blood Diamond, ‘I realised that if I’m buying this, people are dying.
It’s that extreme’. She first learned about lab diamonds in 2015 while doing a part-time jewellery course in Hatton Garden (alongside her MBA at London Business School).
They seemed like the perfect, ethical solution. However, she could find only two tiny companies partially using them in engagement rings. ‘I thought, “Why isn’t anyone doing this?”’ recalls Laura, who decided to create her own..
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