Designer Lines With Pearls

From the February 2021 Issue of #thisispearl Digital Magazine Face Time Samira Sizdahkhani’s infamous pearl faces—baroque-shape South Sea pearls set with human-inspired gold components like teeth—were born around 2010, a period in which she had finished a stint with a pearl dealer and when she moved to Los Angeles. The founder of the Samira 13 jewelry brand was never a fan of pearls until she started learning about them, intrigued by the uniqueness of each one and their sometimes-odd shapes. And once she started carving and drilling into them, gluing diamond eyes in some, her anthropomorphist fantasy faces took shape....

From the December 2020 Issue of #thisispearl digital magazine Crowning Achievements When a high-end department store called Assael earlier this year asking for a tiara, designer Sean Gilson and company vice president Peggy Grosz were happy to comply. With headpieces a fixture in myriad runways shows of late, the timing for a fresh fine-jewelry version—particularly one that converts to a necklace—seemed right. So Gilson set to work designing a youthful one in the same design family as his Bubbles jewelry collection (think playful clusters of fine pearls) for Assael. He completed it just a few weeks ago. The frame is made...