Evening Bag
2014
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Chanel 'Lait de Coco' evening bag in the style of a milk carton. Designed by Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel Autumn-Winter Ready-to-Wear 2014 collection.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Lambskin leather |
| Brief description | Evening bag designed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, leather, France, 2014. |
| Physical description | Chanel 'Lait de Coco' evening bag in the style of a milk carton. Designed by Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel Autumn-Winter Ready-to-Wear 2014 collection. |
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| Gallery label | This evening bag in the shape of a milk carton featured in Chanel’s supermarket-inspired Autumn–Winter 2014 collection. It displays many of the classic Chanel symbols such as quilting, the interlocking CC motif and pearls. The text on the front reads 'lait de coco', French for 'coconut milk' and a play on Gabrielle Chanel’s nickname, Coco.
V&A, Room 40, Bags: Inside Out (12/2020) |
| Bibliographic reference | Bags V&A Exhibition (Project)
Bags: Inside Out (2020) Lucia Savi, V&A Publishing, pg 36
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.166-2019 |
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| Record created | December 14, 2018 |
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