Yoko London’s pearl zipper necklace stands out at JCK Las Vegas
Yoko London’s zipper pearl necklace turned movement into the story at JCK Las Vegas, where kinetic design met a trade audience of more than 30,000.
Pearl design looked decidedly less static at JCK Las Vegas, where Yoko London’s zipper necklace gave the category a sharp new vocabulary: motion, adjustability and transformation. The piece, built around the brand’s Zyyp concept, was the kind of high jewelry statement that did more than sparkle. It moved, opened and closed, and made the case that pearls are no longer being sold only as timeless objects but as engineered, wearable forms.
That shift mattered because JCK is the jewelry trade’s most important global gathering, and the 2026 edition at The Venetian Expo drew a vast professional audience. The show ran from May 29 through June 1, while Luxury occupied the same Las Vegas venue from May 27 through June 1. Trade-show coverage estimated more than 1,900 exhibitors, over 17,000 qualified buyers and total attendance above 30,000 professionals from roughly 100 countries. In that setting, kinetic pearl jewelry was not a novelty for one booth corner. It was part of the season’s commercial conversation.
Yoko London has been building this language for some time. The brand says Zyyp is its most versatile piece, designed around a functional zipper-inspired mechanism that lets the wearer slide the jewelry open and closed to adjust fit. Yoko London says the line debuted at Haute Jewels Geneva in March 2025, and Forbes also noted that Geneva debut. Haute Jewels, founded by Michael Hakimian, who is also Yoko London’s CEO and founder, places the brand in a longer pearl lineage, one that dates to 1973 and now extends through partnerships with 13 pearl farms worldwide.
The workmanship behind the effect was unmistakably high jewelry. One Zyyp necklace listing included 277 round diamonds totaling approximately 4.11 carats, while another cited 277 diamonds totaling 4.14 carats paired with a 14 to 15 mm White South Sea pearl. A separate version featured a 15 mm Golden South Sea pearl. Those details are the difference between a concept piece and a credible design proposition: the zipper language is not merely decorative, it is supported by scale, diamond weight and pearl quality.
For buyers and designers, the real takeaway from Las Vegas was not that pearls can be playful. It was that the ideas most likely to stick are the ones that solve for fit, adaptability and movement. Adjustable strands, transformable clasps and silhouettes that change as they are worn feel ready for the market; spectacle without function does not. Yoko London’s zipper necklace suggested that the next pearl story will belong to pieces that shift with the body, not just sit on it.
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