The Tahitian pearl as the guest of honour at the Kara trade fair
The jeweller and designer's trade fair was held in Paris last weekend.

This trade fair, which is impatiently awaited by the public every year, was a great success.
This sales exhibition is heavily frequented by jewellery lovers and this year it was clear that around 80% of the exhibitors were using Tahitian pearls in their creations. Tahitian pearls, an explosion of colour, shapes and sizes.

The presence of the winners of the Tahitian Pearl Trophy France also attracted attention:
Daniela Baumgartner, Caroline Mailly for Anamnesia, Ann Gerard, Isabelle Souppe, Nelly Gilbert, as well as the Spaniards Carmen Iglesias and Sylvia de la Vega.

Perles de Tahiti exhibited the first prizes of the international Tahitian Pearl Trophy contest and officially launched the new creation competition, the 5th "Tahitian Pearl Trophy" with the theme: "The song of the stars".

This year's remarkable creativity includes the "Le Bal des Féés" (Fairies' Ball) necklace, created at the request of the great Taiwanese collector Francis Chen by the jeweller Jean Boggio whose playful creations, inspired by the imagination of fairy tales, are unceasingly admired.
For this necklace in grey and yellow gold with 1,500 diamonds and Tahitian pearls the designer has used Tahitian pearls abundantly for the first time.
This necklace will be on show from 20 December in the Forbidden City in Beijing. This extraordinary necklace is the first of a series of five, representing the five continents ruled over by Francis Chen.

L’Eclaireur, in its always slightly removed universe, exhibited necklaces, pearl links and strings of pearls by Robert Wan.

The Tahitian pearl is in fashion and this year has had even greater success, not only in terms of its reputation, but also commercially.

Régine Doloy
Perles de Tahiti
French Branch
Paris, November 2006.