It is increasingly difficult these days to make a
dangerous fashion statement. Tattoos have become
generally more extreme, yet in some quarters they are
the norm. Due to the outrageousness of some tattooing,
new levels of transgression are being reached. There
is still much of the outré about them. What if one
could embrace their a rebours aesthetic in a transitory
way, without permanently decorating and/or afflicting
one's flesh? Jewelry, especially that by designer Chris
Habana, is the answer.
If, to Austrian architect Adolf Loos, ornament was
tantamount to crime, Chris Habana is a wicked recidivist,
infusing his pieces with a heady mix of transgression
and luxury. Habana's pieces, paradoxically weighty yet
sinuous and sometimes even delicate are like fabulously
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