Vintage Chanel evening coat sells for 312,000 euros at Paris auction
A vintage Chanel evening coat sold for 312,000 euros at auction in France. All 252 lots of socialite Mouna Ayoub's vast collection from the luxury fashion house sold at the Pavillon Gabriel in Paris on Monday (20.11.23) night and netted 1.5 million euros. The star lot - an evening coat by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld embroidered by Lesage to resemble the Coromandel screens treasured by founder Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel - fetched 312,000 euros, according to a spokeswoman for the sale. Ayoub explained that she only wore the coat - from Chanel's fall 1996 haute couture collection - once...