Something slightly strange has been happening at my bench.
Over the past three months, I've been commissioned to make more cufflinks than I have in the previous three years.
Not one random order. Not one wedding commission that happened to come along.
Pair after pair.
And it got me wondering: are cufflinks actually back?
Apparently, they are.
I thought it was just me…
When you make jewellery by hand, you sometimes notice little shifts before you really know why they're happening.
Recently I've had a definite increase in requests for solid silver, chunky cufflinks - proper pieces of jewellery rather than something purely functional.
Then I started looking around and realised there seems to be a much bigger cufflink revival happening.
Prada brought them onto the runway for Autumn/Winter 2026, using cufflinks almost like miniature pieces of jewellery – sculptural, interesting and designed to be noticed.
Wallpaper* has even just asked whether cufflinks are this season's “unexpected menswear accessory”.
So perhaps my customers are considerably more fashion-forward than I realised.
Why now?
I have a theory.
We've spent years surrounded by things that are disposable. Fast fashion, gadgets that are obsolete within a couple of years and gifts bought because we couldn't think of anything else.
I think there's a growing appreciation for buying fewer, better things.
And cufflinks fit beautifully into that.
A pair of solid silver cufflinks isn't something you use up or replace next year. They're something you can still be wearing in 20 or 30 years.
They can be polished. Repaired. Engraved. Passed down.
They acquire memories.
And with precious-metal prices having risen so much, there's perhaps also a renewed understanding that when you give someone something made from solid precious metal, you're giving them something with genuine substance and value.
There's something reassuring about that.
They're becoming jewellery again
This is probably the bit that interests me most as a jeweller.
Cufflinks seem to be moving away from being simply a men's accessory that you have to wear with a particular shirt.
They're becoming jewellery for men.
Recent red carpets have seen Robert Pattinson, Jacob Elordi and Chris Evans wearing beautiful jewelled cufflinks, while Paul Mescal went completely off-piste at Cannes and used a gold Cartier cufflink through the front of his shirt rather than on his cuff.
I absolutely love that.
It's treating the cufflink as jewellery rather than just a fastening.
And that lends itself perfectly to the sort of cufflinks I like making – solid, tactile silver with a bit of weight to them.
Something you notice when you pick it up.
And they're not necessarily just for men
I don't think cufflinks need to belong exclusively in the men's jewellery box either.
Women have borrowed from traditional menswear forever - oversized shirts, tailoring, tuxedos, watches - so why shouldn't cufflinks be part of that?
A beautiful white double-cuff shirt with a pair of chunky silver cufflinks can look fantastic on a woman.
And because cufflinks are such small pieces, they give you lots of scope to make them personal without becoming overly sentimental.
Which brings me to weddings…
This might be where cufflinks really come into their own.
I've always thought jewellery is at its best when it means something, and personalised cufflinks make wonderful wedding gifts.
Initials.
A wedding date.
Coordinates of somewhere important.
A tiny word or message that nobody else needs to understand.
They can be made for the groom, best man, father of the bride or groom – or even as matching pieces for several members of the wedding party.
But unlike so many wedding gifts, they're not destined for a drawer once the wedding is over.
They can come back out for anniversaries, dinners, other weddings and important occasions for decades afterwards.
Eventually, they might even be handed down.
That's my definition of a good gift.
Maybe they never really went away
Perhaps that's actually the answer.
Cufflinks didn't disappear. We just stopped paying much attention to them for a while.
Now fashion is rediscovering proper tailoring, craftsmanship and the pleasure of getting dressed up – and suddenly these tiny pieces of jewellery make sense again.
I'm certainly seeing it first-hand... more cufflinks in three months than I've made in three years.
Whether it's Prada, precious-metal prices, the return of proper dressing or simply people wanting to give presents that actually last, I'm not entirely sure.
It's probably a little bit of all of them.
But if cufflinks really are having their moment again, I'm very happy about it.
Because give me a chunky piece of silver and an excuse to make something that could still be worn in 30 years' time, and I'm in.
If you'd like to commission a pair of handmade silver cufflinks – whether for a wedding, birthday, anniversary or simply because cufflinks are apparently cool again – get in touch and we can create something completely personal.