Vetements Just Dropped A Drug Spoon Necklace Like The One Worn By Sarah Michelle Gellar In ‘Cruel Intentions’

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by Rebecca Cope |
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Vetements isn't known for being PC. After all, this is the brand that gave us a weed grinder necklace, a cigarette lighter and jeans with a zip exposing your behind (totally optional). And now, it's taken inspiration from one of our favourite films of the '90s with its new 'snuff' necklace.

The silver chain pendant features a screw-top mechanism that opens to reveal a small spoon, much like the one used by Sarah Michelle Gellar's character Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions. For the uninitiated (seriously, what have you been doing?) Kathryn stores cocaine inside her necklace, which is in the shape of an elaborate crucifix. She gestures towards her necklace several times in the film, one time saying that, 'Sometimes, when I'm feeling down, I turn to Jesus and he helps me through it'. Of course this has double layered meaning - she's actually referring to cocaine helping her through it.

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It's all a bigger part of how we see her as a fake, two-faced person - who presents a Marcia Brady-esque persona to the elite world of the Upper East Side while scheming with her step-brother Sebastian (Ryan Philippe) to ruin their lives. So in many ways, the necklace is integral to her characterisation.

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It's not the first time we've seen these spoon necklaces, either. In 2015, popstar Lana del Rey sold heart-shaped lockets on her website with a spoon that unscrewed from the top, perhaps a reference to her song To The Races which says, 'he loves me with every beat of his cocaine heart'.

But while fashion's current obsession with stoner culture - a la the weed grinder necklace - is well-documented, its associations with cocaine are a little bit more controversial. Model Kate Moss hit headlines in 2005 after she was pictured taking the illegal substance, and subsequently lost the majority of her major fashion house contracts.

Weed, conversely, is having something of a 'moment' - thanks in large part to a thriving new start-up community of businesses in California, where it has been legal to buy marijuana since 2016. Alexander Wang's autumn/winter 2016 collection was inspired by the leaf, while stars like Rihanna and Miley Cyrus have openly spoken about their love of using it. Will cocaine get the same treatment? Probably not.

The Silver Snuff necklace just dropped online and is available to buy on SSense for £250.

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