Mikimoto’s new high jewelery collection: Jeux de Rubans ♦ ︎
Mikimoto took advantage of the Paris haute couture week in July to present a large collection of high jewelery. It is a special collection, because it celebrates birthday number 125 of the birth of the Japanese Maison specialized in pearls. The founder, Kokichi Mikimoto, over a century ago managed to invent the way to cultivate pearls: thanks to him, today, this gift of the sea has become more widespread. To celebrate all this, Mikimoto then launched the Jeux de Rubans (games of ribbons) collection.
As you can guess, the new collection also revolves around the use of pearls: there are all sorts of them, even very rare. As in the case of conch pearls. These are rare pearls: they are not made of mother-of-pearl, but are produced from calcareous concretions. Conch pearls are not pearls with a mother-of-pearl core. They are, instead, produced by the mollusc Strombus Gigas, which lives in southern Florida, near the Caribbean. This mollusk produces these particular pearls that have exceptional nuances, such as that used for a ring in the collection. But, be careful: experts recommend wearing a pearl conch only in the evening, because the color of these pearls tends to fade over time. Giulia Netrese
