Fashion Briefing: As lab-grown diamonds keep booming, can mined diamonds coexist?

This week, a look at the explosive growth of lab-grown diamonds, including how it’s affecting the mined diamond sector and whether the two categories can coexist. Scroll down to use Glossy+ Comments, giving the Glossy+ community the opportunity to join discussions around industry topics.

On February 5, the French government’s Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Prevention of Fraud made a ruling on how manufacturers can refer to lab-grown diamonds. While “lab-grown” or “cultivated” are acceptable terms outside of France, diamonds not mined from the ground will now have to be sold in France as “synthetic diamonds,” a term that rankles many who sell lab-grown because of the connotation that these diamonds are somehow “fake” when in reality they are chemically identical products.

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