By clothing-bag, 30/01/2023

The story behind the most coveted bags of a French maison

Although you would be forgive to assume that this bag debuted in November 2012, it is not so.In this case, 11.12 Refers to the bag style code, A01112.Its real origins have a longer story.After the death of Gabrielle Chanel in 1971 and a pause in the influence of the brand, Karl Lagerfeld took the reins of the fashionable house in 1983;And in an attempt to revive him the old spark of him, he introduced his own version of bag 2.55.

At that time, relatively lower interventions were made in the bag, but they were enough to make bag 11.12 (known as Classic Flap until the beginning of this year) one of the most coveted bags in fashion history.Karl Lagerfeld threaded the leather through the golden chain strap and changed the elegant rectangular closure for those doubles C, now, the bag is presented in finished skin, veal skin, veal skin with pebbles (nicknamed 'caviar'),square padded or chevron, tweed, and other varieties.

It is impossible to confuse this bag with another one that is not a creation of Chanel, and even today, under the care of the current creative director, Virginie Viard, Bag 11.12 maintains its imposing status.

Chanel Boy

For the fall of 2011, the German designer, Karl Lagerfeld, gave us the Chanel Boy bag, whose name alludes to both Gabrielle Chanel's male qualities (as a sports lover and simple clothing) and Arthur 'Boy' Capel, a pole player with whom the designer had a long love relationship.

The boy bag is designed with the same characteristics as the 2.55 and 11.12, however, this has a more square shape and the fittings are bronze, less youthful than, for example, the 2 -way plas of 2.55.In addition, instead of the braided leather chain strap, this version comes with a leather strip destined to rest at the top of the shoulder or in the arm fold.Since 2011, Chanel has imagined several bag iterations, from iridescent metals to PVC padded exterior.

This article was originally published in Vogue Magazine.Vogue.com