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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