Silk-Glove Treatment: Bianchini (artist moniker Mme. Ecksand) inspects a ring; Ecksand’s tight displays turf the antiquated model of dated pieces gathering dust. Photo by Alexi Hobbs
Three years ago, Erica Bianchini, now 27, found herself with an economics degree from McGill and zero interest in working at a bank. Then, through friends, she met Yoan Gehant, also 27 (“handsome, French, impeccable”) and fresh from Tahiti with a harvest of stunning black pearls. “These small local farms have 100-percent renewable pearls,” says Bianchini. “They don’t dive with oxygen because it tampers with the water—some of the cleanest in the world.”
A few weeks post–Tahitian pearls, when shopping for a gift, Bianchini was stunned at luxury jewellery’s patriarchal stodginess. “No one could explain anything to me. You’d walk into a store and feel as though a piece had been there for decades.” Propelled by a long-held fascination with the mysterious Paris-based gem magician JAR and an obsessive
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