What to do for an encore after former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton selects a Mateo Onyx Bar bracelet as her jewellery of choice for an appearance on the cover of the May 2015 issue of Elle magazine?

If you’re Matthew ‘Mateo’ Harris you keep your head down, work harder, stay humble and come up for air only after you’ve negotiated another successful contract with shopping channel HSN.com. “I’ll be on HSN.com at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, July 28,” he shared. There’s more SO soon learns… “I am making history as the channel’s first black jewellery designer and the first Jamaican… I’m super-excited.”

Harris is fresh from a European jaunt to Frankfurt, Germany, ostensibly because he wanted to see the city; Paris, France because it is his favourite European city; and Barcelona, Spain, to marvel at Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia whose construction commenced in 1882 and continues to this day. Work and pleasure are inextricably linked as there’s always a deal to be inked, like his recent one with Julian Bader, the buyer at Amazon UK;

counter space at TsUM (one of the most renowned high-end department stores in Russia); and his new leather collection, which he’ll unveil at Macy’s Herald Square in September. An alert on his phone affords even more good news: his B2 sterling silver black rhodium bracelet appeared in American GQ in a feature titled: 13 Men’s Bracelets That’ll Instantly Up Your Style Game. Jamaica, however, is where he dreams of showcasing his collection and is in discussions. SOOOO cannot imagine that he’ll be knocking for long; I mean, Rihanna, Naomi and Chelsea are fans of his designs which have graced the publications that matter, and best of all he adores his mum Carmel Harris with whom he’s here spending time.

— NMW