Curatorial Description

CHANEL Ultimately Rare Black Velvet Jacket with CC Jewel Wheat Patch — as seen on Supermodel Claudia Schiffer, • From Advertising Campaign of Spring 2010 ‘Countryside’ Collection — This is not a jacket but an emblem — a black velvet cipher of Chanel’s metaphysical countryside, where abundance, beauty, and power converge // Size mark 46 FR / Condition: never worn // • Cut from velvet in the deepest, most resplendent black, the silhouette recalls the rigor of tailoring softened by velvet’s eternal dusk • At the chest, a hand-embellished jewel CC logo patch wreathed in golden wheat glows like a crest of abundance — a symbol of harvest transfigured into couture immortality • jewel Gripoix buttons crown the double-breasted front, talismanic in their shimmer, each an axis between ornament and authority • Black silk lining, hidden within, completes the garment’s secret inner sanctum, a whisper of luxury known only to the wearer