JOHN LIM & HUMID HOUSE X MIKIMOTO

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“I just want to make things that confound and delight,” says Lim of the work his team does as “botanical designers”. The jeweller’s pearls are camou»aged amid snowberries, which resemble clusters of pearls and happen to be in season, “so that they reveal themselves only upon closer inspection”. The use of purple sand and a model with white hair and alien-coloured skin create a sense of the unnatural – a cheeky nod to the origin of cultured pearls. Says Lim: “(I guess we came up with the idea of) a jewellery-loving technicolour mermaid who washed up on the beach of a distant planet, caught up in the detritus of the shore.” Yup, weird, but also delightful indeed. 4IEVP RIGOPEGIW ERH 0IW 4IXEPIW 4PEGI :IRHSQI / [LMXI KSPH IEVVMRKW ERH VMRKW [MXL TIEVPW ERH HMEQSRHW