Curatorial Description

CHANEL · CC Graffiti Black Lesage Tweed Trousers — Paris / EGYPT 2019 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld – Presented at the Metropolitan Museum, New York · As seen on Vittoria Ceretti in Ad Campaign — Chanel’s Egypt is not costume; it is language — scarab logic, temple geometry, and the all-seeing gaze translated into couture surface. The graffiti is the modern hand over the ancient: Lagerfeld’s final signature written across time // Size mark 36 FR / Condition: never worn // — House Codes · Material Authority — • Precious Lesage tweed in the deepest black — a dense woven field calibrated for shadow • Side graffiti script with CC and ancient-Egypt symbols — iconography treated as signature, not print. • Iridescent shimmering threads woven through the grid — controlled luminosity, never glitter — Jewels · Seals · Talisman Hardware — • Gold-tone octagonal CC button at center front — a seal placed like an amulet at the point of command — Silhouette • Presence — • High-waisted, elongated proportion — the leg reads as a column. The side panels act as vertical “spines” to the silhouette, sharpening the stance and lengthening the line • Total silk lining inside — the private completion where comfort, glide, and weight resolve