When Rihanna broke the internet last week with her ice-cool pregnancy pictures, one thing — besides the bump — was centre stage: a jewelled cross and waist level string of pearls. Meanwhile, to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee this weekend, the Queen layered three strings of pearls. It’s official: pearls are in.
“The amount of the younger generation wearing pearls has increased dramatically,” confirms Jack Cannon, one half of emerging jeweller Hatton Labs. In 2018 he and Joe Gelb began catering to the fast-evolving unisex market, to breathe youth into traditional freshwater necklaces (think strung pearls in daisy shapes, with pastel shade opals to add a little pop).
