For its part the padlock also claims its independence

In Paris, on the bridge of the bridge of Arts lovers cover balustrades of locks closed by a key which they then drain into the river Seine. What make mad the Paris City Hall and make him the Italian Federico Moc - cia book curse Ho voglia di te (I want you) published in 2006. It was he, and especially its characters - who will swear eternal love by attaching a lock to the third lamp of the Milvio bridge in Rome - which would be the ori-origin of the transposed tradition in Paris. Curieu-se coincidence: at the same time, the showcases of jewellers and designers fill these two valuable version objects. Declined in gold or silver, covered of mother-of-Pearl, more or less set diamonds.

Most of the key are only. Tiffany & Co, Pearl of moon, Sophie Pendleton for Perlota in the form of rose or flower quadrilobée or Aurélie Bidermann are, indeed, Sesame to open Pandora's box or the doors of paradise... The key is a classic charm, as the heart, the four-leaf clover or the iron horse, how much small jewellery follower of accessible and playful jewelry. Dinh van, Diane von Furstenberg H.Stern or Dodo Pomellato by did not fail to make a their charm fetish to hang on a chain or a link to cotton's.

For its part, the padlock also claims its independence. Without the key, the models of the Tif-fany & Co collection, launched in January, want Oper-tional, they wear as a symbol of the atta-loving reconciliation. Behind this pattern lies a meaning more ambivalent than a node or a heart: he reportedly was inspired by the padlock of the mythical belt chastity which prevented the wife of being unfaithful to her husband in believe-BSA. Even today, this figure refers to the bid and fetishism. The punks are addicts and Sid Vicious, the ultraviolet singer of the Sex Pis-Tol, was a real neck.

It happens that these two elements - key and padlock - are really made for the other and permanent service as a couple. They become, then iron-moir, this technical feature that dear-spheres generally jewellers to conceal. Of Hermès Kelly bag is the best known. In sheet metal small joail-work, the idea please also many... Louis Vuitton performs copies in gold key and its flexible luggage locks to close his bracelet large link chain. Thakoon - creator American ready-to-wear very hype, guess jewelry for the Japanese jeweller Tasaki - takes this idea on a Saltire of an extreme finesse.

These locks and these key priority is not to speak of love, he does, both are seen as jewellery sense. The equivalent of a heart pendant which separates in two, more contem-porain. Free and bound at the time, key and padlock ECHO also all bands that are designed to follow perfectly. Thus, bracelet Louis Vuit - tone and the Saltire Tasaki allow new got engaged to play two: one keeps the cade-mudsnail jewel, the other is the key in his pocket or a pendant. As they start very easily, they are perfectly adapted to fixed-term commitments. Provided they do not discard the key in the Seine River, above the railing of the bridge of the Arts...

D.R.; FLOWER STUDIO / HERMES; LOUIS VUITTON.