As the natural and lab grown diamond markets continue to fluctuate while they learn how to live together, luxury brands are creating lab grown diamonds that are bigger and more impressive than their natural counterparts. LVMH's Fred brand debuted the “Fred Audacious Blue,” an 8.88ct lab grown blue diamond to promote its new “Happy Blue Shades" collection of blue colored stones. Read more about this gem here:
https://nationaljeweler.com/articles/12376-the-first-lvmh-lab-grown-diamond-high-jewelry-is-here
The Belgian jewelry store, Heursel, in collaboration with Dutch Diamond Technologies, created a single crystal diamond ring. A ring that has been entirely carved from a lab grown diamond. Read the about this advancement in diamond technology here:
https://www.gia.edu/gia-news-research/cvd-grown-diamond-ring
Industry analysts believe that the path for lab grown diamonds is to create something different, something that's bigger, cleaner, and with more saturation of color than natural diamonds can achieve.
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