Curatorial Description

CHANEL · Iconic Black Tweed Jacket with CC Gripoix Buttons • — Paris–Egypt 2019 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld — • A final Métiers d’Art chapter from Lagerfeld’s Epoch • — Paris / EGYPT 2019 is consecrated: presented at the Metropolitan Museum in New York as a cultural event, then released into the world as wearable relic // Size mark 44 FR / Condition: never worn // — House Codes · Material Authority • Precious black Lesage tweed with an embedded shimmer — a dark surface that catches light like hieroglyphs under torch-flame • Signature braided trim outlining the architecture — the Chanel border that makes the silhouette read instantly, even at distance • Masterpiece jewel Gripoix buttons with CC logos — not decoration, but seals: the official punctuation of the House. — Silhouette · Presence — • The iconic four patch-pocket configuration — a Chanel thesis stated without explanation • Balanced, straight authority through the body; the kind of jacket that doesn’t “style,” it commands — Inner Architecture — • Tonal black silk lining inside — the private finish that proves the piece was built, not merely made • Chain link at the interior hem — Chanel’s hidden gravitation system: weight, hang, and discipline engineered into the underside