Résurgence du vestiaire bourgeois oblige, les boucles d’oreilles à clip sont à la mode. Un constat a priori oxymorique qui, du fait de certains stigmates collants à la peau de ces accessoires désuets, nous a d’abord laissées sceptiques. À l’heure où les oreilles percées sont aujourd’hui légion, pourquoi ces instruments de torture aux vertus décoratives, emblématiques de la boîte à bijoux un brin poussiéreuse de nos grands-mères adorées, s’imposeraient de nouveau comme le must du bon goût et de l’avant-garde stylistique ? Pour y répondre, il nous faut opérer une brève remontée dans le temps et nous plonger dans une brève sociologie de la boucle d’oreille.
In turn symbol of social distinction or simple aesthetic ornament, the famous jewel has always been at the bend of a pierced lobe.It was in the 19th century, in the midst of Victorian that such an act suddenly covered a vulgar and inappropriate connotation: sporting elegant accessories or respecting decorum, such had become the thorny question.It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that a skillful solution was (finally) found with the appearance of the famous clip which thus allowed anyone to carry loops without suffering the disgrace to see his ears grooved.
It is then the fashion of "candlesticks" in oversized crystal that one wears ostentatiously during events of good society, even if it means missing to hear the lobe because of their absolutely disproportionate weight.Never mind, clip earrings are pulling out of the game, declining in emblematic designs of an era when boyfriends and diamond pampilles make (very) good cleaning.
It was without counting on the distrust of the Beat Generation which, from the 1970s, made ear piercing (and among other parts of the body) an act of rebellion and vindictive self -expression, within cultural andPolitics."When I started creating jewelry in the early 1960s, women did not have pierced ears" remembered Kenneth Jay Lane, in the columns of the New York Times."The one who had been considered them hippies.Then all the girls became hippies."he comment.A revolution of manners that could be easily telescop with that which has been seen recently, between body acceptance, stresswear affirmation and genderfluid celebration.For all, it is the bourgeois and modest clip which, paradoxically, reproaches its learned mechanical.
In addition to the return of flame of the BCBG style, the clip owes in particular its revival to the growing importance that the earrings occupy in the composition of its look."They remain the most important thing that a woman carries."assured Ward Landrigan, former director of the jewelry department at Sotheby’s."There was a time when to go out without it was like going out naked!".Symptom of this stylistic phenomenon, multiplication on podiums as in the streetstyles of these overlapping "Earring Statements", these loops under the optional apparatus than a full -fledged centerpiece.
Now who says spectacular earring, generally says size xxl and weight that is difficult to bear, which can significantly deform our ear hole.This is where the clip intervenes, saving the time of an evening.Others swap their traditional curls in the name of their love for vintage jewelry, more than ever in an air of the time that celebrates the upcycling and the revaluation of the pieces of yesteryear.Results ?Luxury houses and young creators draw their most beautiful clips, changing the obsolescence of yesterday in new trend.
Discover our selection of clip earrings in the following slideshow.
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