Curatorial Description

CHANEL · Tyrolean Knit Jacket with Suede Closures & CC Deer Buttons — Paris / SALZBURG 2015 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld Highly collectible · rare runway knit · one of Lagerfeld’s most beloved Métiers d’Art chapters — Collectibility Note — • Paris / SALZBURG is one of Lagerfeld’s most appreciated Métiers d’Art collections precisely because it consecrates craft: embroidery, knit, folklore, and Chanel codes fused into objects that feel archival by nature. • This jacket is a wearable artifact from that chapter — rare, culturally legible, and unmistakably collectible // Size mark: 42 FR / Condition: never worn // — Material Authority · Knit as Architecture — • Crafted in a soft, supple knit blend with sculpted surface texture — tactile, dimensional, and quietly luxurious rather than flat • The body is framed by hand-woven trim in Tyrolean-inflected tones (turquoise, red, green), forming a ceremonial border that makes the silhouette legible at first glance — House Codes · Closures as Seals— • Front fastening with suede closures — a heritage mechanism reinterpreted as Chanel punctuation: practical, tactile, and visually architectural • CC logo deer buttons act as emblematic seals: the house insignia fused with alpine myth, turning hardware into storytelling. • Trimmed pockets and cuff borders echo the same woven “grammar,” keeping the entire piece internally consistent, like a complete sentence