you liked the keys now you have the locks

[fogdancer]

from Tiffany new collection...

 

[Circe]

You know, just conceptually ... I like the idea of having a key, of being able to open doors, etc. The idea of wearing something that looks like a shackle around my neck? Brr, pass. Then again, I find the Cartier "Love" bracelets creepy for similar reasons, so ... yeah.

 

[junebug17]

Yeah, I'm not really feeling these...they look clunky and just aren't very visually appealing to me.

 

[that_someone_special]

You know, just conceptually ... I like the idea of having a key, of being able to open doors, etc. The idea of wearing something that looks like a shackle around my neck? Brr, pass. Then again, I find the Cartier "Love" bracelets creepy for similar reasons, so ... yeah.

LOL exactly.. I agree they look like shackles... These seem nothing like tiffany to me at all... eek not cute.

 

[manderz]

Count me as another tally for the "not a fan" group. They look way too bulky for my taste, plus I like a little more sparkle.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Yp - too clunky and, quite frankly, they look like gangster chains.

 

[iLander]

EPIC FAIL!

 

[Blackpaw]

yeah they look a bit cheap to me, like the padlocks on cheap padlock bracelets at a mall store?

Circe, i also find the Cartier 'love' bracelets a bit creepy, and a bit masculine to be a lovey-dovey kinda gift...

 

[fogdancer]

Blackpaw and other girls/women thanks for looking; but I just posted to show the "new" item, so overpriced and famous names does not mean good taste all the time.
I wouldn't wear it at all.

Inspired by Tiffany Keys a local jeweler here in Brazil made in June (when we celebrate Valentine's Day) their own keys way better and smaller than the original from T, bad me I should have take pics... sorry.


Hugs to all

 

[Circe]

Circe, i also find the Cartier 'love' bracelets a bit creepy, and a bit masculine to be a lovey-dovey kinda gift...

Yes! I hadn't put my finger on that part of it, but contextually, that's such a big part of it. I actually LIKE most "masculine" jewelry, but it you make it into a ... mark of ownership, almost, the context gets a lot less "empowering," and a lot more, well, creepy.

Fogdancer, I'm glad you posted it! I like the board a lot more when we can discuss things objectively as opposed to just voting "hawt" vs. "not." And I do hope you post a link or somesuch to the Brazilian jeweler you reference: so many people are doing cool things with the key symbolism. Have you seen Julia Kay Taylor's "Key to Sweetness" series? They're shaped like golden honeycombs and inset with jeweled bees - so clever, and so well-done!

 

[Imdanny]

You know, just conceptually ... I like the idea of having a key, of being able to open doors, etc. The idea of wearing something that looks like a shackle around my neck? Brr, pass. Then again, I find the Cartier "Love" bracelets creepy for similar reasons, so ... yeah.

Agree on both counts.

Wearing a lock would be, um, kind of weird, I would think. Neither "shackles" in and of itself nor "locks" on women has a good connotation.

And I'm not a fan of the LOVE collection. Fake screw motifs? What's up with that?

I'll add that all of the men's collections at Tiffany, Harry Winiston, and Cartier, to me they are "overly-masculine" if that make sense. The aesthetic is kind of caricatured. To me it's like they're saying, it has to be very, very, did I mention, very masculine so that you know it's "ok" for men to wear it. I can't get into that.

 

[junebug17]

Blackpaw and other girls/women thanks for looking; but I just posted to show the "new" item, so overpriced and famous names does not mean good taste all the time.
I wouldn't wear it at all.

Inspired by Tiffany Keys a local jeweler here in Brazil made in June (when we celebrate Valentine's Day) their own keys way better and smaller than the original from T, bad me I should have take pics... sorry.


Hugs to all

Fogdancer, I really appreciate you posting the pic! Due to things going on in my life I feel out of the loop on a lot of things and PS helps me stay informed with regard to what's going on in the jewelry world. It's interesting to see the latest styles and trends.

 

[yennyfire]

I wonder who thought that locks were a good concept?...I bet that person will be out of a job soon, lol!

 

[Sizzle]

I'm not a fan. Also didn't Tiffany already have locks at one point.. They kind of looked like padlocks. They weren't very sturdy. The quality of Tiffany Silver has gone DOWN while the prices have gone up.

 

[fogdancer]

Hi Circe greetings from a Summer country lol


here You can find some examples of Brazilian jewelers, in case if you want to see more please let me know...

[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/brazilian-treasures.110264/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/brazilian-treasures.110264/[/URL] LOL


Hugs


Monica

 

[AGBF]

I concur with you all about the the locks. I now must look up the Cartier "love" bracelets, however, since I have no idea what they

look like! Thank you for posting the photos, Monica. If no one took the time to do that, I, at least, would be uninformed about a lot

of new trends!


Deb/AGBF

 

[AGBF]

For anyone else like me who was clueless about the Cartier, "Love" bracelet, here is a link to a site that provides a photograph and an

explanation. I find it bizarre, but chacun a son gout!

http://phi-style.blogspot.com/2007/02/cartier-love-bracelet.html

Deb/AGBF
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

 

[Imdanny]

Oh, I didn't get the part about how the bracelet has a screw and you lock you partner up.

And I still don't like the fake screw motif.

 

[movie zombie]

read a sci-fi fantasy book years ago...title long forgotten...but part of the societal norm was that jewelry was seen as a form of subjugation of women.......

MoZo

ps love sci-fi, love my jewelry!

 

[Imdanny]

I don't know but I think it's far more likely to be an expression of social class and political power. In England during the time of Henry VIII it seems that men wore as much jewelry as women and there was a "sumptuary" law dictating who could and couldn't wear what. If you weren't at a certain level of society you weren't allowed to wear jewelry (I find that very surprising and annoying).

 

[Imdanny]

So some of these are on the Tiffany US site. They look smaller than I thought they'd look. The concept still creeps me out.