Curatorial Description

CHANEL · Sequinned Lesage Tweed Jacket with Gripoix CC Buttons — Paris / New-Yorks / EGYPT 2019 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld • Boutique value: over $13,000 — Presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this jacket stands as more than runway documentation: it is an archivable artifact — a work where Lesage’s hand, Gripoix’s jewel logic, and Lagerfeld’s curatorial mind converge into one coherent statement — Here, Lagerfeld’s Paris/Egypt narrative is not “theme” but code: an architecture of silhouette and surface where antiquity is translated into couture discipline // Size mark 42 FR / Condition: never worn // • Woven in precious Lesage tweed, animated by sequinned punctuation that catches light like a controlled constellation — never loud, always deliberate • palette is strictly noble: black, ecru, beige, and mineral greys, arranged in horizontal rhythms that read like strata — textile geology with couture precision. • Jewel Gripoix buttons with CC logos serve as talismanic closures — miniature seals anchoring the garment’s identity amid the shimmer. • rounded collar and elongated line carry an Egyptian-inflected severity — a disciplined, temple-like structure translated into wearable form • Tonal silk lining inside — the private proof of Métiers d’Art integrity. The piece is finished as a complete object, with interior calm balancing exterior radiance