LOS ANGELES / AUGUST – 2026
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Sedona Legge Turned Chains into a Symbol of Ultimate Freedom and Gallant Glamor.
What comes to mind when you hear the word “chained” – ? It harkens to captivity – animals chained to cages, whips and chains, being held back, being held down. It connotes dark romance, rock n’ roll romance, rebellious romance. Not the opposite of freedom when it’s chosen, it becomes the diametrical opposite. When hard materials adorn and embellish the pliant body, the tension between the chill of metal and stones touching and moving like tassels against the warmth and gold of skin goes beyond jewelry – to dissonance, divine conflict, incongruity. A skirt made of chains? Remind you of chastity belts? Chokers like shields, protecting fragility, headdresses evoking the early days of true female freedom – the 1920’s – with dripping pearls, kinetic silver chains, stones that shake loose around the hair and face. Chained By Sedona’s harnesses made of chain – for women and men – evoke warriors, Medieval knights, the Middle Ages, Joan of Arc, even Game of Thrones, going into battle glamorously.
Chainmail, historically worn by magnificent military forces like European knights, Viking raiders, have been adopted by rock stars as a kind of tough punk armor: Freddy Mercury, Iggy Pop, Lenny Kravitz. Tina Turner owned it in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome – despite it weighing almost more than her at 89 pounds. Cher, Doja Cat have somehow turned the toughest material known to man into something sexy, defiant, edgy. Because who but a warrior of the light could bend metal to their will?
Chained by Sedona, the seven year old L.A. based brand of jewelry, headdresses, bras, belts, skirts, capes by Sedona Legge – all by hand – are both custom and shoppable pieces. Made for and worn by Lenny Kravitz, Camila Cabello, Willow Smith at The Met Gala, Saweetie, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Ariana DeBose, Dakota Johnson, Black Pink, Phoebe Bridgers, Doja Cat, Hailey Bieber, Lil Nas X and Grimes – romantic warriors, all.
