Curatorial Description

CHANEL Collectible Black Tweed & Sherpa Jacket • Boutique Value: over $11,000 — Runway of Paris–Egypt Métiers d’Art Collection 2019, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Not merely a jacket, but a metaphysical mantle — an object where history and couture converge. To wear it is to inhabit a fragment of Chanel’s eternal grammar, consecrated beneath the timeless gaze of the Met. // Size mark FR 36 FR // Condition: never worn // — Crafted from precious black Lesage tweed with an iridescent, shimmering check that recalls the geometry of ancient stonework bathed in light — Embellished with marvelous octagonal CC logo buttons, faceted like jewels cut for eternity — The collar and interior lined in sumptuous camel-hair sherpa, a cocoon of warmth hidden within the architecture of form