Magic in silver. Stephen Websters Mens Jewellery Collection.

Stephen Webster is the ultimate diamond geezer.  From a modest start in the Thames estuary town of Gravesend, near London, he has attracted some of the entertainment world's most alluring glamorous clients and established a loyal continually evolving, global customer base and in honour of his enthusiasm, commitment and creativity, has achieved several clean-sweeps in the jewellery trade's glittering prizes.  

Four-times 'Luxury Jeweller of the Year' in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005, 'Jewellery Designer of the Year' in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2006.  He is a freeman of the city of London.

But while the jewels in Stephen Webster's beautiful pieces may be exquisitely multifaceted, his vision has always been singularly focused.

With magpie-like tendencies apparently hardwired into his DNA, Webster's love of things that shimmer and glisten found him attending a Jewellery and Silversmith course at Medway College of Design aged just 16. 

During that very first term Stephen found himslf fired up with a passion for jewellery design and craftsmanship that remains at the top of his professional agenda to this day.

What makes Stephen Webster such an effortlessly contemporary, unconventional but persistently relevant star in the fine jewellery firmament is the way the designer cleverly blends a love of traditional craft values with his innate love of contemporary music, fashion and modern, rap 'n' roll street styles.  It's a unique and edgy approach that has been some 30 years in the making.

Meanwhile, his unassailably stellar celebrity client roster continues to grow at pace. The past few years have seen Stephen fashioning beautiful, one-off pieces for the likes of Madonna, Sharon Stone, Kate Moss, Jennifer Lopes, Cameron Diaz, Pink and Christina Aguilera. 

He’s also made mens jewellery for Elton John, Jay Z, Ozzy Osbourne, Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage and Michael Stipe.

Thanks to Stephen Webster's influence and passion, the men’s market has become a key area of growth.

 
With his Stephen’s industrious talent he has helped coloured gemstones and fine jewellery back into the fashion zeitgeist and has been a key player in attitudes to jewellery.

"Things have changed" he says. "The fear factor, the reverence and the rather staid formality have all but disappeared. Magazines now have fashion shoots featuring cheap H&M jeans worn with £5000 diamond rings. Having a diamond-studded accent to a watch or a piece of jewellery no longer marks a customer as a flashy, ostentatious type. It just makes a person look more…lively."

Stephen's History After completing his training under Tony Shepherd, a former Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Stephen worked as a craftsman for several established London design houses. 

Amongst many highly regarded commissions was the honour - on two occasions - of setting the De Beers Diamond Stakes Trophy.

In 1982 he moved to Canada to set up and run a small studio designing and producing for an independent jeweller.  After returning briefly to the UK in 1984, Stephen could not resist the opportunity to move to sunny California where his bold style, employing unusual and exotic gems, continued to take shape with the help of an open-minded and enthusiastic audience.

Confronted by resistance to his bold and colourful style of jewellery in the UK, Stephen continued to focus on his market in the USA.  Slowly but surely collections such as ‘Jungle Fever’, ‘Crystal Haze’, ‘Thorn Noir’ and ‘Attention Seeker’ provoked intrigue and acceptance for the British designer that followed no trend.

In 1988, Stephen returned to London to establish the company that is now known as Stephen Webster Ltd.  

Now, with one of the largest jewellery manufacturing and design studios in London’s West End, Stephen Webster is widely considered to be one of the international scene’s most accomplished and exciting designers.

His company has expanded worldwide with independent boutiques in Seoul, Moscow & St Petersburg and over 50 concessions in the United States as well as Dubai, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. More stores are planned for the former Soviet Republics in the near future.

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