Curatorial Description

CHANEL · Lesage Tweed Jacket with CC Gripoix Buttons — Paris / BOMBAY 2012 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld • Boutique value: over $14,000 • — As seen on style icon Miroslava Duma, it carries the unmistakable aura of a “known” garment: instantly legible to those who read the language — A Métiers d’Art jacket that doesn’t simply reference Bombay — it translates it into Chanel’s own couture syntax: shimmer as incense, texture as architecture, jewels as talismans — Designed to be worn as a statement. Kept as evidence. Archived as cultural material. // Size mark 36 / Condition: never worn // • Precious Lesage tweed in noble, mineral shades — a black-and-silver field alive with quiet glints, like city lights scattered across dusk • Intricate shimmer woven into the surface — not sparkle for effect, but radiance as craft, controlled and deliberate — Jewels · Seals · Talisman Hardware — • Masterpiece jewel CC Gripoix buttons — each one a small object of authority, set with natural stones and marked with the CC as an official stamp • Tonal silk lining inside — the private completion of the piece, where drape and comfort resolve into certainty