Curatorial Description

Coat: CHANEL – Paris / EDINBURGH 2013 Runway Coat • a sovereign relic of the Highlands, forged at the height of Lagerfeld’s narrative genius — a garment that does not simply adorn, but ascends — To encounter it is to feel history stirring; to wear it is to reign — quietly, irrevocably, beyond time — A runway masterpiece consecrated for collectors, a relic of couture’s northern saga — // Size mark 36 FR / Condition: never worn // • crafted from supple navy cashmere, its check pattern calls forth the spectral geometry of royal tartans — a whisper of palaces in fog, of exiled queens, of rebellion gilded with tenderness • braided trim handwoven in indigo, heather, and frost, tracing every border like a protective rune — the ancestral halo of the Paris–Édimbourg cosmology • silver-tone jewel buttons, each stamped with the lion-headed CC crest — emblems not of decoration, but of sovereignty; small heraldic shields anchoring the garment in myth • tonal silk lining blooming with camellias, hidden from the world, known only to the wearer — a secret garden of the Maison, a sanctuary pressed against the heart Trousers: CHANEL · CC Graffiti Black Lesage Tweed Trousers — Paris / EGYPT 2019 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld – Presented at the Metropolitan Museum, New York · As seen on Vittoria Ceretti in Ad Campaign — Chanel’s Egypt is not costume; it is language — scarab logic, temple geometry, and the all-seeing gaze translated into couture surface. The graffiti is the modern hand over the ancient: Lagerfeld’s final signature written across time // Size mark 36 FR / Condition: never worn // — House Codes · Material Authority — • Precious Lesage tweed in the deepest black — a dense woven field calibrated for shadow • Side graffiti script with CC and ancient-Egypt symbols — iconography treated as signature, not print. • Iridescent shimmering threads woven through the grid — controlled luminosity, never glitter — Jewels · Seals · Talisman Hardware — • Gold-tone octagonal CC button at center front — a seal placed like an amulet at the point of command — Silhouette • Presence — • High-waisted, elongated proportion — the leg reads as a column. The side panels act as vertical “spines” to the silhouette, sharpening the stance and lengthening the line • Total silk lining inside — the private completion where comfort, glide, and weight resolve