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'At around the same time, Chanel's head designer Karl Lagerfeld showed women in leather jackets and piles of fat gold chains (complete with big double Cs) that simultaneously nodded to the label's habit of overaccessorizing with tons of jewelry and hip hop's current cool de force. Several seasons later, Lagerfeld (who uses hip hop and R&B in his shows and reportedly listens to the music in his Chanel workrooms) sent models down the runway in long black dresses complete with big silver chains with padlocks - which looked similar to the metal chain-link and padlock that rapper Treach from Naughty By Nature was wearing at that time, in solidarity, he said, with "all the brothers who are locked down"'.