Curatorial Description

CHANEL · Lesage Ribbon Tweed Jacket — Fall 1993 Runway, Karl Lagerfeld – Fall 1993 is Chanel at maximal clarity — Lagerfeld as the architect of power— not simply a jacket, but a woven document from the era when Lagerfeld wrote Chanel in bold, intelligible sentences and sent it down the catwalk on supermodels like a decree — This is the House at full articulation — craft elevated into language, silhouette elevated into authority // Size mark 34 FR / Condition: never worn // • Precious Lesage ribbon tweed — structured like a miniature tapestry, with ribbon threads and tactile relief forming a rhythmic, painterly matrix • Noble earthy pastels — clay, ember, bark, muted jewel-dust tones — an aristocratic spectrum designed to age into legend rather than trend • Masterpiece CC logo jewel buttons with 64-karat gold coating — not decoration, but seals: the official punctuation of identity — Silhouette · Presence — • The iconic four-pocket architecture — two chest flaps, two hip flaps — Chanel’s most recognizable code of disciplined utility turned ceremonial • Unmistakably Chanel: the balance of strict geometry and sumptuous surface, austerity and radiance held in one object. • Tonal silk lining — the hidden completion, quiet against the skin, exact in weight and fall, chain link at the interior hem