• 24K gold plated open cuff 
• High polish finish
• Crocodile alligator skin pattern finish
• One Size
• Signature inside
• Ultra discreet CC signature: the top of refinement
• Hinged kick segment at one side for slip-on style: One size
• Comes in signature Chanel box
• Approximately: Width 1.5 inch x inside 7 inch
• Made in France

With the magnificent setting of the 10 B.C. Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the backdrop for Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show, Karl Lagerfeld was thinking of a chic mash-up of Ancient Egypt and New York itself. The collection was designed to showcase the small miracles wrought by the house’s fournisseurs. These embroiderers, feather workers, button-makers, costume jewelers, fabric weavers, milliners, and shoemakers are flourishing anew thanks to Chanel’s taking their once waning ateliers and supporting them under the company’s Paraffection subsidiary.

The alligator and python effects in this collection were also trompe l’oeil: They are now created from stamped leather or even from scale-shaped discs of sparkle; Chanel announced on the eve of the show that the brand will no longer be working with crocodile and exotic reptile and stingray skins.

most notably in the years immediately following Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922, miraculously filled with the treasures that were intended to guide the monarch (who died at the tender age of 18) to the afterlife. The period’s fashion and fine jewelry designers went mad for all things Egyptian. Lagerfeld nodded to those with some Deco Egyptian detailing, and also sent out a thoroughly 2019 homage to that beautiful boy king in the beautiful boy king persona of Pharrell Williams (see Look 40, with its trompe l’oeil gorgerine necklace cleverly worked into the knit). Then he seemed to riff on the Bangles’s 1986 hit “Walk Like an Egyptian,” with a slew of prints evoking the mean streets of Alphabet City and the New York subway during that decade, exuberantly reimagined by the contemporary French graffiti artist Cyril Kongo—latter-day hieroglyphs you might say, and typical of the connections that Lagerfeld makes in his febrile imaginings. Thirty-five years ago, his fellow design icon Andrée Putman told Vogue of Lagerfeld that “every day he’s adding facets, thanks to his galloping curiosity and his cultural bulimia.” Lagerfeld was then on the eve of debuting his Chanel haute couture collection for the house that he would soon transform into a global mega-brand as revolutionary as the one that Gabrielle Chanel herself created in the aftermath of the First World War—and his galloping curiosity, as this collection made abundantly clear, hasn’t stopped since.

Style Tip: Wear this Chanel cuff, stack with other jewels from this collection (currently listed) with a stole or jacket/shirt for an immediate Paris look