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Monochrome Monday: The Mother of Pearl Edition

This season’s softest shade comes with edge. Our monochrome edit in Mother of Pearl charts the line between bridal, sculptural, and quietly subversive.

Farida El Shafie

Monochrome Monday: The Mother of Pearl Edition

There’s white, and then there’s Mother of Pearl—that rare, refracted shade suspended somewhere between bone, bloom, and glint. It sits quietly at the edge of bridal and battle-ready. In this curation, we trace the tonal spectrum of shell-white as interpreted across silhouettes, seasons, and surfaces—from sculptural tailoring to glossier-than-thou accessories. Pearl here is neither precious nor passive. It’s textured. It’s weighted. And in the hands of designers from Tamara Ralph to Dima Ayad, it becomes a vocabulary—floral, formal, and outwardly feminine.

Tamara Ralph | Look 20 – SS25

Bias-cut florals and caped drama combine in a look that reads like a 1930s screen siren went rogue at couture week. 

Andrea Wazen | The Tabaris

Pointed, mesh, and mother-of-pearl sheened. A shoe for when you want the elegance of a veil with the velocity of a stiletto.

Oceanus | Faith Co-Ord


Abadia | Gwen Off-Shoulder Dress

Heritage-informed but not weighed down by it. Draped sleeves fall just-so, while the off-shoulder cut subverts formality with quiet precision.

Dima Ayad | Mikado Flower Skirt

Oversized petals in mikado silk that walk the line between sculpture and skirt. It moves like architecture in motion.

Simone Rocha | Egg Faux Pearl Bag

A pearl, reimagined. Rocha's egg bag is equal parts relic and provocation—pale, bulbous, and too pretty to be practical.

Azza Fahmy | Union Collection

Filigree and freshwater pearls fuse in this ode to intimacy and ancestry. Understated, yes—but every detail carries narrative weight.

Kayali | Silk Santal 36

The olfactory counterpart to this palette: warm, woody, and diffused like candlelight on ivory silk. A perfume that wears like memory.

Gentle Monster | SS’25 Collection

Sculptural and severe, these oval-lensed frames bring noir energy to a pearl-toned palette. Think Botticelli meets Berlin club kid.

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