Chanel SS14 Artclass Graffiti Trompe L'oeil Medium Boy Bag — Silver-Gold Canvas
Three examples of the Chanel SS14 Artclass Graffiti Trompe L'oeil Medium Boy Bag are offered by Élégance du Luxe — and this is the one that stops the conversation first. Where the ecru canvas reads as warm and painterly, and the darker variant as graphic and urban, this silver-gold canvas configuration is something altogether more extraordinary: a bag that appears to have been found in a studio after the gold paint ran out, left in the light until the surface took on a luminous, almost metallic quality that no deliberate production decision could have designed more convincingly.
Silver-Gold Canvas — The Most Luminous Graffiti Boy
The canvas of this Boy Bag reads as a bright, warm silver with pronounced gold undertones — a tone that shifts between a pale champagne-gold and a cooler silver-white depending on lighting conditions. In direct light it glows with a metallic warmth entirely absent from the ecru and darker variants. In softer light it reads as a bleached, washed canvas with the ghost of gold still present in the weave. The trompe l'oeil graffiti print — applied over this luminous base — appears as though spray-painted over a canvas that was already aged and sun-bleached before the artist touched it, producing a layered effect of extraordinary depth. The red CC logo at the front closure reads as a vivid accent against the pale, shimmering ground — more visible here than on any other canvas tone in the Graffiti Boy series.
The Most Directional Rope Strap of the Three
The rope chain accessory on this particular example features a dense, multi-strand rope in vivid multicolour — red, yellow, black, blue, and white — the most graphically bold of the three rope configurations present across the Graffiti Boy variants in the Élégance du Luxe inventory. The contrast between the pale, luminous canvas body and the vivid multicolour rope creates the most immediate and directional visual relationship of the three bags — a combination that references street art, festival culture, and Lagerfeld's SS14 vision simultaneously.
Construction & Details
The bag is constructed from printed canvas with partial leather lining, a leather handle at the top transitioning to a thicker ruthenium chain below, and the carabiner-fitted rope pendant that defines the collection. Interior features a zippered pocket, one large main compartment, and two slit pockets on the inner front panel.
Three Variants, One Collection — Why This One
Collectors who have followed Élégance du Luxe's SS14 Graffiti Boy offerings will understand the distinction between the three canvas tones available. The ecru reads as warm and soft. The darker reads as urban and graphic. This silver-gold reads as luminous and otherworldly — the canvas tone that makes the trompe l'oeil concept most fully convincing, because nothing about it looks like a deliberate design decision. It looks like something that happened, and then turned out to be perfect.
Condition & Authenticity
Authenticated and offered by Élégance du Luxe. Every piece in our inventory is carefully reviewed before listing and comes with our full Authenticity Guarantee.
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Model: Medium Boy Bag
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Collection: Spring/Summer 2014 Artclass Runway
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Canvas Tone: Silver-Beige
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Material: Printed canvas with partial leather lining
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Hardware: Ruthenium (Dark Silver-tone)
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Strap: Chain with dense multicolour rope pendant & carabiners
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Interior: 1 zip pocket, 1 main compartment, 2 slit pockets
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Origin: Chanel Paris
