![]() Manicure, Virginie Mataja at Airport Agency. Shoot: Hair, Pierre Saint Sever at The Art Board. Louis Vuitton for Unicef silver Lockit pendant and chain, £555, and white-gold and diamond Lockit padlock and key pendants (worn as earrings), both POA. Roseberry has taken this inspiration and created oversized, surrealist gold earrings and necklaces that look both delicate and tough and have a magical quality, hinting at secret treasures. The padlock first appeared in the house’s 1935 haute-couture collection on a handbag, as a protective seal to what Schiaparelli believed was a woman’s private world, and has since become a recurring motif in embroidery, on buttons, clasps and jewellery. Givenchy silver necklace, £1,590, silver and opal G earrings, £450, and cotton coat, £2,390 © Anthony SeklaouiĪt Schiaparelli, Daniel Roseberry gave a very different, otherworldly meaning to the padlock – one of founder Elsa Schiaparelli’s favourite symbols – as embellishment, jewellery and hardware. It’s also a playful reference to the padlocks fastened, in an act of love, to the Pont des Arts in Paris – his new creative home – and, surely, a link to the skateboard culture of his past life in California. Williams says the padlock represents the synergy of utility and luxury, and is a connection between Givenchy’s men and women. Contrasted with soft, draped silhouettes, these mechanical-looking pieces swing from belts like modern-day chatelaines, or are reconfigured into tough, punk-inspired earrings and necklaces. Matthew Williams picked a padlock almost straight out of the hardware store to mark his debut as creative director at Givenchy. The padlock – both intimate and industrial, mysterious and mundane – is cropping up in the collections of fashion and jewellery houses this spring. ![]() ![]() The recent surge in popularity of charms and talismans has shown that, even in our super-rational age of science and technology, we’re still driven by an atavistic impulse to cling to amulets. ![]()
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