Curatorial Description

Chanel “ARCTIC ICE” Runway Tweed & Jewel Embellished Jacket Masterpiece - Boutique Value: Over $14,000 - A piece requiring untold hours of artisans’ devotion, it is less a jacket than an elemental sculpture: couture frozen into wearable art. - A relic of haute couture where darkness and frost converge, this rare Chanel coat from Karl Lagerfeld’s fabled Arctic Ice runway collection stands as both garment and myth // Size mark 38 FR / Condition: never worn // • Fashioned from precious black Lesage tweed, its silhouette is heightened with epaulettes of command, while collar, cuffs, and hem erupt in waves of fantastical fur — as though edged with the aurora’s shadow • Hundreds of hand-applied, midnight-black jewel beads shimmer across the surface like constellations glimpsed through polar night, each stitch a meditation in patience and mastery • Adorned with iconic CC jewel buttons, miniature talismans forged as icy emblems of Chanel’s eternal language. • The closure — a CC-logo zipper — draws the form into sculptural poise • leading inward to a tonal silk lining discreetly patterned with camellias and weighted