Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mikimoto cuts the ribbon today on its New York City flagship, which boasts twice the space of its old location. Housed within the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. HOUSTON, TX - NOVEMBER 02: A detail shot of the pearl ...

Have you ever heard someone mention Audrey Hepburn and The Cramps musician Poison Ivy in the same sentence? That's how Jesse Jo Stark, the creative director of L.A.-based jewelry label Chrome Hearts, ...

Mikimoto America has appointed Kentaro Nishimura as president and chief executive officer. Nishimura brings more than 25 years of experience with Mikimoto, starting in Tokyo in 1997 where he managed ...

Japanese pearl specialist Mikimoto plays with a seductively dark aesthetic in the new ‘Passionoir’ collection. In the jewellery, black South Sea pearls are subjected to the Japanned Noir technique, ...

Mikimoto and Chrome Hearts are joining forces to bring together their distinct design aesthetics for a limited-edition jewelry collection highlighting pearls. The Japanese fine jewelry brand and the ...

Having invented a method for creating cultured pearls in 1893, Meiji Era entrepreneur Kokichi Mikimoto set about selling them to the world. Apparently not one for understatement, he once announced he ...

Upscale Japanese jeweller Mikimoto has launched the Les Pétales de Ginza collection, inspired by a beautiful and delicate petal swirling in a spring breeze in Ginza, Tokyo. The collection features a ...

The intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street may well be the most luxurious corner in New York City, anchored by the massive Louis Vuitton flagship, Bergdorf Goodman and the still luxurious, if ...

Mikimoto said Wednesday that Academy Award–winning actress Michelle Yeoh is the face of a new global advertising campaign celebrating the origins of the cultured pearl industry. Titled “1893 – Time on ...

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