In 2017, while at Mother of Pearl, Powney won the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund enabling her to launch No Frills, a core collection made with organic and natural materials. It was the making of ...

Scientifically, pearls are formed by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defense against ... Nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, then forms a layer around the irritant to protect ...

This month we’re getting to know Mother of Pearl, a British womenswear brand ... with Tencel (a fibre made sustainably from natural materials) and was named an ambassador for the company.

Mother-of-pearl can be traced back to the Mesopotamians ... which aims to celebrate the imperfections in the natural world. Not all pearls have to be prim and proper, a point proven by Missoma ...

“The natural ones were overfarmed ... extracting from the earth or pumping in chemicals.” The by-product mother-of-pearl, which is increasingly being explored by Bibi van der Velden and ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...