This past season, other designers followed suit, with pearls adorning different kinds of attire, from Ellery's oversized minimalist olive-green suit to Ashley Williams' western-inspired mini dresses. Ryan Lo gave his cyber-pop models pearl collars, while Jour/né teamed ruffled Bardot tops and loose trousers with layered pearl belts and Huishan Zhang presented what we predict will be the new racing stripe: vertical lines of pearls running down the front of trousers. In short: Pearls have been freed from the straight-laced and the stuffy, and are now worn with a heavy dose of contemporary cool. And with fall on the horizon, our closets could use a little something fresh.