VOGUE

Credit: Vogue

Credit: Vogue

Safety pins aside, Sex Pistol Sid Vicious was rarely seen without his padlock necklace, a gift from American rocker Chrissie Hydne. As legend has it, Vicious flushed the keys to his chain down the loo, and the only time the piece came off was upon his arrest, when the police cut it from his throat. Eddie Borgo’s pave-crystal and rose-gold plated bracelet, an homage to the British antihero, is far more glamorous than the infamous mythology would suggest. “Punk iconography is aggressive, but I like the idea of manipulating something raw and making it beautiful and feminine,” he says. “It might look heavy, but actually it’s deceptively light. And it comes with no key to lose (or flush)–a link clasp will set you free.