Sunrise. Silence. No rustle in the palms, no ruffle on the sea. Calm, crystal clear turquoise glass to the horizon and cool, damp sand underfoot.
Dawn in the South Pacific.
To an audience of none she wades gently westward, out to sea, sweeping her fingers on the water as it breathes in each curve. Legs, then hips and stomach. She pauses waist-deep to exhale, hair tousled, salt on lips, sand on hips, radiant and alone. Effortless and unadorned.
One more deep inhale of balmy salt strewn air before diving deep into the depths of the glass bottom ocean. She finally comes up to see before her the most brilliant blues met by green lush mountains that reach up to the heavens and are topped with whispy white clouds. The sun heats the surroundings and a faint coconut scent lingers in the warm trade winds. The day is bright and full of adventure and life. She is at ease, at sea, at home.
This season MIKOH retreats to French Polynesia for our 2015 collection, South Pacific. Here, tucked beneath the latitudes, like a secret kept hidden from time, we find ourselves at ease, on ocean lapped shores, and back to the Polynesian Paradise that seems only possible in dreams. We find a kindred culture, rooted to the sea, its islands strewn across the map but ever threaded by the tide. In these waters we find adventure, joy, trade wind blown salty nights and quiet mornings.
South Pacific is a collection inspired by its namesake — a sea of possibilities, of bright eyes and brown skin. Of natural beauty. Of stories to be lived and told. In Polynesia we see ourselves; we see our journey reflected and the enduring truth that guides MIKOH on our way: We will voyage. We’ll explore. We’ll travel the days and nights of a life well lived and discover new lands, new loves.
But always we’ll return to the sea — its warm embrace, its cool serenity — where we are centered, calmed, composed and unruffled like its surface at dawn. Where we feel at home, and yet ready to journey on.
We hope our story transports you to the South Pacific.
