Lot 8 - Karl Lagerfeld (German, b. 1933) Melissa - 2012, original color sketch on paper

From the creative director of Chanel for over three decades.

Starting bid: $2600
Estimated value: $3000-$8000
Buyer's premium: 18%

DESCRIPTION:
Karl Lagerfeld (German, b. 1933) Melissa - 2012, framed original color sketch on paper

Dimensions - approx. 20.5 inches x 27 inches, framed

PROVENANCE:
Acquired as a gift directly from the Chanel team by the present owner

ABOUT:
Karl Lagerfeld was a German fashion designer born in 1933. As the creative director for Chanel from 1983 until his death in 2019, he's credited with resurrecting the dying Chanel brand while taking the interlocking Cs monogram of Coco Chanel and turning it into the style pattern so often used on bags and shoes by the brand today.

Like many fashion designers, he used sketches to illustrate his ideas to others, and left behind a substantial body of drawn work valued by collectors. The piece here is one of those drawings, a sketch for his collaboration with Melissa brand shoes of Brazil, released in 2013. This particular sketch was used in Elle Magazine’s first look of the shoe line and is signed by Lagerfeld himself, dated 2012.

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