Curatorial Description

CHANEL · CC Scarab Button Tweed Jacket with Metallic Leather Trim — Paris / EGYPT / New-York 2019 Métiers d’Art by Maestro Lagerfeld • Presented at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New-York — As seen on Vittoria Ceretti in AD Campaign and on Billboards around the world — A Paris / EGYPT 2019 Métiers d’Art jacket that reads like a gilded artifact — Chanel’s language translated through Egyptian symbolism — a piece that carries both cultural provenance and material authority, designed to endure beyond season // Size mark 40 FR / Condition: never worn // • Crafted from precious Lesage tweed in nude, sand, and pale mineral tones, threaded with a subtle shimmer that behaves like desert light at dusk — controlled, refined, never loud — Egyptian Code · Scarab Buttons as Seals — • The front is fastened with Scarab-motif CC buttons — protective emblems in Egyptian myth, here functioning as Chanel’s own talismanic closure • Each button reads as a miniature reliquary: symbolic, collectible, and unmistakably tied to the Paris–Egypt chapter. • Metallic leather trims at the collar, cuffs, and hem create a gilded frame — a couture border that sharpens the silhouette and turns the jacket into an “outlined” object, like a precious panel set in metal • Inside, a contrast turquoise lining — an unexpected inner sky, a secret color field that echoes Egyptian lapis and the collection’s mythic palette.