If it weren’t for Kokichi Mikimoto, we might be living in a world without pearls. As a young man growing up in a seaside Japanese village, Mikimoto observed the diminishing supply of natural pearls ...
Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the founder of La Patiala, the luxury encyclopedia. While June officially has three birthstones — alexandrite, pearl and ...
Given the difficulty of getting large, flawlessly round and smooth pearls of a high lustre, it is no wonder there has been a surge of interest in semi-baroque and baroque pearls Pearls are getting ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Coco Chanel used to say jewellery should be viewed with innocence, “with artlessness, just as we enjoy the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Matthams Spencer is a Paris-based writer who covers jewelry. The Comme des Garçons x Mikimoto ad, shot by Kazumi Kurigami and ...
Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...
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