John Lewis launches Completedworks collaboration, pearls lead the edit

John Lewis has turned one of jewellery’s most directional languages, the modern pearl, into a high-street proposition with real commercial reach. Its 13-piece collaboration with Completedworks launched on May 14, 2026, and makes the London label’s sculptural, asymmetrical signature feel newly accessible, with freshwater pearls taking the lead across earrings, necklaces and a glass-pearl bow bracelet.

That matters because this is not pearl jewellery in the old, matched-and-polished sense. Completedworks has built its reputation since 2013 on forms that feel drawn from the everyday but edited with a collector’s eye, and this capsule stays true to that code. The line leans on knots, flowers, vine-shaped resin and irregular pearl placements, using metals, recycled brass and silver, resins, freshwater pearls and brass pearls to create pieces that read more like wearable objects than conventional matching sets. Completedworks describes that pearl approach as non-classical, and that idea is now being packaged for a broader customer.

The edit also shows how fast the market has moved. John Lewis already carries a large pearl-jewellery category with hundreds of items, but this collaboration pushes the material further into fashion territory: asymmetric freshwater pearl earrings, a mismatch pair, a pearl-and-cubic zirconia earring, and a bow bracelet built around glass pearls. John Lewis lists 12 of the 13 pieces online, with prices from £95 for the Pearl CZ Earrings to £295 for the Flower Charm Necklace. In between sit the Glass Pearl Bow Bracelet at £165, the Mismatch Freshwater Pearl Earrings at £195, the Flower and Pearl Asymmetric Earrings at £245 and the Gold Flower Charm Bracelet at £235.

Anna Jewsbury’s brief was to bring Completedworks’ design language to a wider audience, and the result suggests more than a one-off designer collaboration. By translating the label’s knotwork, floral motifs and deliberately uneven pearl arrangements into a range that sits comfortably at John Lewis, the partnership gives a broader customer access to a look that once lived closer to art jewellery. If baroque and asymmetric pearls are now appearing in a mainstream department store edit at these price points, the message is clear: modern pearl design has moved decisively beyond niche status and into the high street.