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Vintage Chanel Leather Chunky Chain Bracelet 1980s

Name: Vintage Chanel Leather Chunky Chain Bracelet 1980s
Brand: Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
Rating: 5 (77 reviews)

$1,996.63

£1,435

€1,709.52

CA$2,750.26

A$2,785.87

CHF 1,599.59

MX$33,777.85

NOK 18,561.18

SEK 18,893.14

DKK 12,780.45

About the Item

A Vintage Chanel Leather Chain Bracelet. A perfect piece of Chanel heritage especially when we cast our thoughts back to the eternally iconic Linda Evangelista in black leather Chanel, styled with armfuls of the leather chain bracelets. Wouldn't it be wonderful to acquire a piece from this never to be repeated, glorious, period of the House? Supers and Lagerfeld a magical combination. Elegantly timeless with an edgy vibe. Chanel perfection. Who wouldn’t want to own a piece of vintage Chanel jewellery? A major part of her eponymous House since 1923 Gabrielle Chanel’s jewel legacy is unparalleled. A passionate innovator and champion of ‘bijoux de couture’ or ‘costume jewellery’, Gabrielle made ‘faux’ de rigeur in high society, taking wearable art stratospheric. The world and almost every fashion house following suit, captivated by her inimitable, timeless jewel style. Following Gabrielle’s passing, her jewel legacy entered a new mega-watt era with Karl Lagerfeld and Victoire de Castellane designing Chanel costume jewellery from the early ‘80s. Their collections immortalised the interlocking Cs and took jewelling excess to new and dizzy heights, all the while remaining true to the DNA of Gabrielle’s eponymous House. Jennifer sources and authenticates each piece of Chanel jewellery in her collection. Important pieces from her collection were chosen to be exhibited in the highly acclaimed 'Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto' Exhibition, running at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in 2023/2024. Disclaimer: Although our beautiful collection contains pieces from some of the world’s biggest couture houses, Jennifer Gibson Jewellery is an independent brand. We’re not affiliated with any of the institutions and companies we work with, nor do they contribute to the ‘authentication’ of our jewellery; this is Jennifer’s job. And of course, any trademarks and copyrights remain the sole property of the original brands. Vintage Condition: Very good without damage or noteworthy wear. The leather remains supple and completely clean. Materials: Gold plated metal, leather Signed : Season 26 Fastening: Bar/Toggle Approximate Dimensions: 20.5cm long Should you choose to buy from us, we commit to your item being as described. Your vintage jewellery will arrive beautifully packaged and presented, helping to preserve your one-of-a-kind piece. Don’t hesitate to message us if we can help.

Creator:
Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
Dimensions:
Length: 8.08 in (205 mm)
Period:
1980-1989
Date of Manufacture:
1980s
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Wilmslow, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 18711stDibs: LU1973223071752

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Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel

More than a mere tastemaker, Karl Lagerfeld devoted himself to the continual pursuit of chic. “My life and my job,” the designer once said, “is to forget myself.” From his first collection at Chanel — after joining the brand in the early 1980s — he injected the venerable house with a frisson of modernity. Vintage Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel handbags, evening dresses, coats, jewelry and other clothing and accessories riffed on its iconography — tweed skirt suits, pearls, camellias — accenting a lexicon of Chanel-isms with tastes of the moment.

During his five-decade career as a designer for Chanel, Fendi, Chloé and many others, Lagerfeld was a quintessential chameleon, ever evolving to embody the times. An outsize, instantly recognizable personality — his ponytail powdered like an 18th-century viscount, his eyes perpetually shielded by dark glasses, wearing fistfuls of chunky silver jewels — Lagerfeld was, above all, an avatar of style.

Born in Hamburg (in 1933, ’35, or ’38 by varying accounts), Karl Lagerfeld packed his bags for Paris in 1954. His design for a coat won him the International Wool Secretariat and landed him a job with the celebrated couturier Pierre Balmain.

Lagerfeld went on to become the designer of Jean Patou, eventually realizing that his seemingly endless ideas could fuel a career as a designer-for-hire. As such, he lent his vision to everyone from Loewe and Max Mara to Krizia and Charles Jourdan, nimbly moving among a diverse range of styles. It was an unprecedented way of working in the days when freelance was still a dirty word.

During the late ’60s and ’70s, Lagerfeld refashioned Chloé to reflect the free spirit of the day and, beginning in 1965, joined forces with the Fendi family, taking it from sleepy furrier to fashion’s haute-est stratum. Because of his track record for reviving and reimagining brands that had grown stagnant, in 1983 Lagerfeld was handed the reins at Chanel, which had been gathering dust since its founder’s heyday.

Lagerfeld’s collections for the brand displayed his knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low. From Watteau (Spring/Summer 1985 couture) and Serge Roche (Spring/Summer 1990 ready-to-wear) to hip-hop fly girls (Fall/Winter 1991 ready-to-wear), surfers (Spring/Summer 2003 ready-to-wear) and ancient Egypt (Pre-Fall 2019), he used each season’s inspiration to conceive Chanel’s signatures anew.

Lagerfeld revived the house's ballet flats and thoroughly embraced the classic logo's interlocking CCs, which became a common and immediately recognizable feature of Chanel flap bags. Many of the rare Chanel bags much sought after today — and Chanel bags of the 1990s, generally — are objects of pure fantasy conjured up by the late couturier.

Despite producing eight collections a year for Chanel, as well as four to five for Fendi, Lagerfeld never faltered in proposing new ideas each time he put pencil to paper.

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