$76,600.00
CHANEL · Emerald Jewel Mosaic Tweed Coat with CC Gripoix Buttons — Paris / BYZANCE 2011 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld • An acquisition. Not a trend. A relic with investment gravity • — As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco • Status: museum-level, ultra-collectible (mythology-tier) — A Paris–Byzance relic that does not merely reference Byzantium — it revives it in Chanel’s own language: emerald as sacred stone, sequins as starlit dust, mosaic as imperial border, Gripoix as seal — This is Métiers d’Art at its most absolute: a garment built like a reliquary, meant to be worn rarely, preserved carefully, and read like a cultural objecy // Size mark 40 FR / Condition: never worn // — House Codes · Material Authority — • Masterpiece Lesage tweed in deep emerald — noble, mineral, eternal • Hand-embellished with the tiniest shimmering sequins — a controlled constellation embedded into the weave, radiance as craft — Byzantine Mosaic · Couture as Icon — • Mosaic-like jewel pieces along the collar and sleeves — gilded tesserae translated into wearable border-work • The collar reads like an imperial crown line; the sleeves like bracers — Byzantium rendered in Chanel proportion, never costume, always doctrine — Jewels · Seals · Talisman Hardware — • Art-like Gripoix jewel buttons with CC logos, stone-embellished — closures as relic seals, not decoration — Silhouette · Presence — • A composed coat line that lets the surface speak — structure held in restraint, opulence organized • The embellishment frames the body as an icon is framed: border defining aura • Tonal silk lining inside — private completion, where drape and comfort resolve into certainty.
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CHANEL · Emerald Jewel Mosaic Tweed Coat with CC Gripoix Buttons
— Paris / BYZANCE 2011 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld
• An acquisition. Not a trend. A relic with investment gravity •
— As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco
• Status: museum-level, ultra-collectible (mythology-tier)
— A Paris–Byzance relic that does not merely reference Byzantium — it revives it in Chanel’s own language: emerald as sacred stone, sequins as starlit dust, mosaic as imperial border, Gripoix as seal
— This is Métiers d’Art at its most absolute: a garment built like a reliquary, meant to be worn rarely, preserved carefully, and read like a cultural objecy
// Size mark 40 FR / Condition: never worn //
— House Codes · Material Authority —
• Masterpiece Lesage tweed in deep emerald — noble, mineral, eternal
• Hand-embellished with the tiniest shimmering sequins — a controlled constellation embedded into the weave, radiance as craft
— Byzantine Mosaic · Couture as Icon —
• Mosaic-like jewel pieces along the collar and sleeves — gilded tesserae translated into wearable border-work
• The collar reads like an imperial crown line; the sleeves like bracers — Byzantium rendered in Chanel proportion, never costume, always doctrine
— Jewels · Seals · Talisman Hardware —
• Art-like Gripoix jewel buttons with CC logos, stone-embellished — closures as relic seals, not decoration
— Silhouette · Presence —
• A composed coat line that lets the surface speak — structure held in restraint, opulence organized
• The embellishment frames the body as an icon is framed: border defining aura
• Tonal silk lining inside — private completion, where drape and comfort resolve into certainty.
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