Kate Matthams
Kate Matthams covers luxury jewelry with an emphasis on original design, hand craftsmanship and how contemporary pieces sit within culture and the market. She writes as a senior contributor at Forbes, where her beat spans high jewelry, independent designers, major houses and the global diamond trade. Her broader portfolio includes work for luxury and jewelry titles such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, Rapaport, Only Natural Diamonds, The Goldsmiths’ Company and MilK Magazine. She also works as an editorial consultant with long experience in luxury communications and brand content, and co-runs the Honesty Box on Jewels newsletter, which focuses on independent designers and candid industry insight.
High jewelry and couture-focused reporting
Her coverage of couture and high jewelry places collections and one-of-a-kind pieces in the context of their maisons’ creative direction and heritage. In Paris High Jewelry Shines At Couture Week, she surveys the presentations of leading houses during couture shows, drawing out how design, materials and storytelling differ between established names and newer labels. Her profile of Boucheron’s chief executive explores how a legacy house can be repositioned through high jewelry, narrative and strategic retail, framing the brand’s revival as a story of “rousing a sleeping beauty.” Across these pieces she writes with close attention to collections themselves - stones, settings, techniques - and to the business goals behind them, connecting atelier decisions to broader luxury trends.
Independent designers and artistic jewelry
Matthams frequently spotlights independent designers, treating their work as both creative practice and entrepreneurial story. Her reporting on figures such as Fie Isolde and Anita Ko focuses on substantial gold-and-diamond pieces and how clients now approach jewelry as a store of value rather than solely an ornament. In coverage of Melee The Show, she describes nine independent designers each interpreting a one-of-a-kind Misfit diamond, using the project to show growing collector appetite for stones with character over technical flawlessness.
Her piece on London house DOSIS G6C, which reached a global audience through bespoke pieces for a major music halftime show, illustrates how a small atelier can rival heritage names for visibility when the work resonates culturally. Profiles of Ute Decker and other art jewelers, including features on Jewellery By Sculptors And Painters at the Venice Biennale and highlights from Goldsmiths’ Fair, extend this focus into the intersection of contemporary art, craft and jewelry.
Through these stories she consistently foregrounds makers’ philosophies, materials and studio practices, positioning independent jewelry as a serious design field rather than a niche adjunct to fashion.
Diamonds, auctions and jewelry as an asset
Diamonds and the economics of jewelry form another strand of her work. In coverage of a Sotheby’s sale spotlighting Black jewelry designers, she situates the auction within conversations about representation, market visibility and how curatorial choices can reshape collecting. Her article on Louis Vuitton’s acquisition of one of the world’s largest rough diamonds explains how the house uses high-profile stones to pursue a top-tier position in fine jewelry, linking headline-making purchases to long-term brand ambitions.
She returns to themes of value and investment in pieces that track rising demand for substantial gold-and-diamond jewels, connecting record metal prices with changing attitudes to jewelry ownership and the idea of jewels as a store of value. Work for Only Natural Diamonds and other specialist platforms ties storytelling about individual stones to education around quality, provenance and hand craftsmanship, reinforcing her focus on how value is created as well as perceived.
This thread gives her coverage particular weight for brands and designers operating at the intersection of luxury positioning, investment narratives and ethical sourcing.
Red-carpet and cultural jewelry moments
Matthams also reports from high-visibility cultural moments where jewelry plays a central role. In her Oscars 2026 red-carpet roundup she parses 29 jewelry looks, paying attention to designers, stones and how specific pieces reinforce on-screen personas and broader brand narratives.
Coverage of collaborations such as DOSIS G6C’s bespoke pieces for a global sports halftime show shows how jewelry can anchor performance imagery and propel smaller houses into worldwide viewership.
Across event coverage she balances glamour with detail, cataloguing settings, gemstones and provenance while indicating which brands, designers and styles are gaining momentum. Taken together, these stories show her interest in jewelry as a visible cultural signal - on red carpets, stages and runways - as well as a crafted object and economic asset, making her a consistent observer of how jewels move between private ownership and public display.
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