In jewelry designer Cora Sheibani’s world, it’s not just the rocks and semi-precious stones that lead colorful lives. In her new collection Skin Deep, pearls show their many colors, too, dangling from earrings, set into chunky rings and sitting alongside square-cut diamonds in a tic-tac-toe grid.

Sheibani is a color addict — and a rule-breaker — which is why she chose to work with cultured pearls. In the fine jewelry world she inhabits, cultured pearls, which are made using farming methods, aren’t particularly precious, and colored ones in particular could easily be mistaken for fake baubles.

But none of that matters to Sheibani. She describes Skin Deep as a “celebration of the diversity of cultured pearls from different locations, all with the unique traits and colors — and ignoring

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