The diamond innovators

The collaboration is a first for Dover Street Market and Diamond Foundry - the US's leading producer of lab-grown diamonds which are created in its San Francisco foundry using solar power Whereas natural diamonds are produced over millennia, these are "Grown" from diamond seeds in a lab which replicate the natural growing process The benefits are significant: the environmental impact of industrial mining is avoided, renewable energy can be used to grow the diamonds, and the process is transparent - you can track each diamond from origin to eventual sale point, a feat which is near impossible with diamonds mined from many of the major mining sites across the globe.

For their capsule, the duo created a glittering slithering snake with a diamond which wraps itself around an oversized gold and bronze base stretching from knuckle to finger joint "The Diamond Foundry is a mystery to me! Maybe a way to recreate the world . . . who knows! They are disruptors at the forefront of technology" For her DSM x Diamond Foundry collaboration she has gone in a different direction: simple linear earrings, with diamonds whizzing like stars across their white gold base.

Delettrez likes to be forward thinking when designing her so found DSM x Diamond Foundry project a natural fit: "I'm fascinated by the future and by experimentation," she says. . Source