Only one good take a look at a pearl and Jennifer Tanpoco can simply assess and gauge its worth. Greater than twenty years of coaching overseas and dealing in pearl buying and selling geared up her with the technical know-how, expertise, and experience with regards to pearls. Tagged because the Queen of Pearls within the Philippines, Jenni’s eyes lit up with ardour as quickly as she started unpacking her journey. Recent from her stint within the Los Angeles Trend Week, in partnership with famend Filipino designer Avel Bacudio, Jenni has huge plans for the pearl trade not solely within the Philippines but additionally across the globe.
A licensed public accountant by occupation, Jenni used to work because the nation supervisor in an organization owned by Robert Wan in 1998. Robert is internationally often called the Emperor of Tahitian Pearls, the kind of pearls thought-about among the many world’s most interesting gems. The pearl authority noticed Jenni’s potential in pearl tradition, so she turned a trusted distributor of his model. Jenni and her architect-entrepreneur husband Mark are two of the few pearl merchants accredited by Robert Wan and have entry to his pearl farms in Tahiti. It was Mark who introduced up the concept of distributing Tahitian pearls within the Philippines and Robert immediately agreed.
Jaune Pearls was born in 2002 and the Tanpoco firm joined the distinguished record of Robert’s collaborators – high jewelers and trend designers like Dupont, Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co., Chaumet, Boucheron, Chanel, Jean Paul Gautier, Mikimoto, and Chow Ta Fook. Because the pearls come uncooked from a personal island within the French Polynesia, Jenni works on sorting and matching the items solely for her shoppers. The identical high-quality pearls make it to Hollywood and are noticed being worn by celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, Keira Knightley, and Kris Jenner. “Pearls are very useful.
Harvesting can take three to 10 years. To make a uniform strand in dimension and form requires time and expertise,” Jenni mentioned.
“I’m honored and humbled to have a full expertise underneath Robert’s tutelage,” Jenni mentioned, highlighting her longstanding friendship and enterprise partnership with the Emperor of Pearls. She continued, “Mark and I made a decision to market pearls not present within the Philippines. Our product designs are uncommon and of top quality, making them unique items.” Very quickly, greater than 20 years in the past, Jenni began changing into the trusted jeweler of society and leisure A-listers. Socialites and celebrities flock to Jenni for distinctive and bespoke items. One in all her pearl patrons is the Queen of All Media, Kris Aquino, who additionally lovingly gave her the nickname Jenni Pearls.
“In some components of Asia, oysters are developed in laboratories. The colour may be manipulated. What makes our pearls completely different is that we retain the unique state. The luster and coloration are all-natural,” Jenni defined. Displaying concern for sustainability and respect for the surroundings, she went in-depth, “The oyster is of course ample, naturally grown within the ocean. There aren’t any hatcheries and chemical compounds concerned so the farming is sustainable.” Jenni’s ardour is overflowing and it’s no shock she was in a position to cross it on to her daughter, actress and recording artist Melizza Jimenez. It’s fairly becoming for Melizza to
get entangled as Jaune, the enterprise model, is her second title. A fascinating pearl coloration, jaune additionally means yellow in French.
Melizza, now being teased because the Pearl Princess-in-progress, is at the moment endeavor her undergraduate research in Australia’s high media and communication college, rating number one in Australia and sixteenth globally. She is engaged on a particular mission for subsequent yr, one she hopes will elevate pearl appreciation to larger heights. Whereas her mother Jenni’s most premium pearls are sorted and matched for the VIPs, Melizza goals to make different high-quality pearls extra accessible to the youthful market. Her older sister Maika Rivera, additionally seen as an actress, helps out in public relations and advertising and marketing in international cities like New York Metropolis and Los Angeles.
“I’m very a lot in love with pearls,” Melizza smilingly shared. “I would like individuals to see why. The entire means of it’s so fascinating. From historical instances thus far, the royals have beloved pearls as they’re recognized to draw happiness and constructive energies. The pure and uncommon gems are given as items to royal households everywhere in the world. Again then, solely the royals had been able to sporting pearls.” Jenni chimed in, “The kings and queens wore pearls as symbols of energy and wealth. They traded pearls earlier than they traded gasoline and oil.” In trendy instances, many world leaders are captivated by pearls’ attraction and luck, the mother-and-daughter tandem added.
Melizza’s wealth of information on pearls is backed by her years of publicity to the enterprise and formal coaching. The younger fanatic took a 6-month on-line course and earned her pearl diploma from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), and went to New York Metropolis to do hands-on work in a laboratory. Jenni earned the identical diploma in 2015. Collectively, Melizza and mother Jenni just lately took a 10-day journey to Tahiti and instantly educated underneath Robert Wan.
“Melizza is aware of make pearls right into a marketable state. She is aware of kind, grade, match, and design ideas,” Jenni added, additional establishing Melizza’s credentials in dealing with the household enterprise. “Robert Wan additionally authorised of her being the ambassador of pearls for the youth.” Melizza is at the moment engaged on enhancing the corporate’s web site and an intimate assortment underneath the identical model which can use Robert Wan’s unique patent know-how referred to as Ariake. “Solely three individuals within the Philippines educated by Robert can do it,” Melizza shared. “The outcomes are lovely that they’re akin to items you’ll discover at The Met or The Louvre.”
“Pearls are the one gems that come from a residing organism,” Jenni emphasised. “Pearls are like fingerprints and NFTs (nonfungible tokens), they’re distinctive. They need to have layers of lovely colours and good luster. If pearls haven’t any luster, they haven’t any worth.”
These fascinating tidbits on the worth of pearls are a part of the schooling she needs to offer extra individuals. Whereas they’re uncommon and useful, Jenni and Melizza hope to make individuals understand that the gems are additionally for everybody and never unique to any gender. In reality, Melizza shared how pearls are noticed in males’s wardrobe like these of celebrities Harry Kinds, Jacob Elordi, and Timothée Chalamet.
“Jaune Pearls is not only about enterprise but additionally sustaining and creating long-term relationships,” Melizza supplied. Her mother added, “As a household, we discover pleasure in our shoppers’ confidence and happiness.” With the fervour, consideration to element, and onerous work exemplified by the Tanpocos, they’re dedicated to giving their shoppers the very best. As Jenni mentioned, “High quality pearls are priceless.” With so many issues Jenni is ready to supply, the world is her oyster.
Be careful for Jaune Pearls in 2023. Go to jaunepearls.com for updates and extra data.
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