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That's how Jesse Jo Stark, the creative director of L.A.-based jewelry label Chrome Hearts, describes her new collaboration with the 131-year-old pearl jewelry maker Mikimoto.
Kokichi Mikimoto (Japanese: 御木本 幸吉, Hepburn: Mikimoto Kōkichi, 25 January 1858 – 21 September 1954) was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto.
In July 1973 he purchased the Tahiti Pearls company with his brothers. [4] Their first harvest was purchased by Mikimoto in 1977. [4] In 1982 he purchased Anuanuraro, then Marutea Sud in 1984, [5] Aukena in 1988, and Nengonengo in 1990. [4] He became the richest man in French Polynesia, until a collapse in the pearl market in 1998. [5]
Comme des Garçons is going one step further to recontextualize the pearl necklace for a more inclusive audience. The brand has teamed with Mikimoto on a second collaboration, this one including ...
The cultured pearls on the market today can be divided into two categories. The first category covers the beaded cultured pearls, including Akoya, South Sea, Tahiti, and the large, modern freshwater pearl, the Edison pearl. These pearls are gonad-grown, and usually one pearl is grown at a time. This limits the number of pearls at a harvest period.
Nuclei from Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Japan. Cultured pearls are the response of the shell to a tissue implant. A tiny piece of mantle tissue (called a graft) from a donor shell is transplanted into a recipient shell, causing a pearl sac to form into which the tissue precipitates calcium carbonate. There are a number of methods for producing ...
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