Paris / Singapore · Cruise 2014 · Karl Lagerfeld

Paris / Singapore · Cruise 2014 · Karl Lagerfeld

As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco

Paris / Singapore · Cruise 2014 · Karl Lagerfeld

As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco

The brightest blue of the season

Paris / Singapore · Cruise 2014 · Karl Lagerfeld

As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco

The brightest blue of the season

Royal blue Lesage tweed, panelled and edged in washed denim, with black enamel CC buttons circled in silver stars. Princess Caroline, a friend of Karl Lagerfeld for decades, chose this jacket — and it is easy to see why: it is the collection's most joyful piece.

Paris / Singapore · Cruise 2014 · Karl Lagerfeld

As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco

The brightest blue of the season

Royal blue Lesage tweed, panelled and edged in washed denim, with black enamel CC buttons circled in silver stars. Princess Caroline, a friend of Karl Lagerfeld for decades, chose this jacket — and it is easy to see why: it is the collection's most joyful piece.

Blue ran through the Singapore collection like a current. Lesage embroidered evening gowns in blue sequins and strings of pearls, and the daywear moved between marine, navy and this saturated royal blue.

Paris / Singapore · Cruise 2014 · Karl Lagerfeld

As seen on Princess Caroline of Monaco

The brightest blue of the season

Royal blue Lesage tweed, panelled and edged in washed denim, with black enamel CC buttons circled in silver stars. Princess Caroline, a friend of Karl Lagerfeld for decades, chose this jacket — and it is easy to see why: it is the collection's most joyful piece.

Blue ran through the Singapore collection like a current. Lesage embroidered evening gowns in blue sequins and strings of pearls, and the daywear moved between marine, navy and this saturated royal blue.

Among a palette otherwise held to black, white and ivory, the blues were where the collection let itself go. They suited the place: a show for 1,200 guests in the green of Dempsey Hill, made for women who travel towards the sun rather than away from it.

Blue ran through the Singapore collection like a current. Lesage embroidered evening gowns in blue sequins and strings of pearls, and the daywear moved between marine, navy and this saturated royal blue.

Blue ran through the Singapore collection like a current. Lesage embroidered evening gowns in blue sequins and strings of pearls, and the daywear moved between marine, navy and this saturated royal blue.

Among a palette otherwise held to black, white and ivory, the blues were where the collection let itself go. They suited the place: a show for 1,200 guests in the green of Dempsey Hill, made for women who travel towards the sun rather than away from it.

The Lesage tweed is a chunky basket weave in electric blue, worked with black and threaded with fine stripes of paler blue, so the colour looks deeper in shadow and almost luminous in daylight.

The Lesage tweed is a chunky basket weave in electric blue, worked with black and threaded with fine stripes of paler blue, so the colour looks deeper in shadow and almost luminous in daylight.

• The texture is rich and slightly looped, generous to the touch without weighing the jacket down.
• The denim is pale and washed, its softness the perfect foil to the density of the tweed.
• The finish inside is a tonal silk lining, with the house chain discreetly weighting the hem.

• Star CC buttons: black enamel set in silver, the double C at the centre of a constellation.
• La chaînette, the gilt chain at the hem that lets the jacket hang true.
• Pocket panels, framed in denim and closed with a button, in the place the house has always kept them.
• The trim: Chanel's braid, translated here into denim.

A boxy, collarless jacket in the spirit of the 1950s original, lightened for summer.

A boxy, collarless jacket in the spirit of the 1950s original, lightened for summer.

• The neckline is round and clean, bound in denim, with the front fastening edge to edge on a single row of buttons.
• The panels of denim rise from the pockets over the shoulders, like the seams of a uniform drawn in a paler blue.
• The sleeves are cut bracelet-length, so they look their best with a cuff or a watch.

Size mark
FR 36

Size mark
FR 36

Condition
Never worn

Size mark
FR 36

Condition
Never worn

Condition report

• Tweed: unpilled and unthinned, the blue even.
• Denim trim: unfaded and unrubbed.
• HButtons: all present and unscuffed, the enamel and plating unworn.
• Hem chain: intact, hanging true.