Boy
Pink • Galuchat • Small (Old Medium) • Ruthenium Hardware
Elke J.
Chanel stopped working with exotic skins in 2018. This one isn’t coming back.
Karl Lagerfeld introduced the Boy in 2011. It’s named after Arthur “Boy” Capel, the man Coco Chanel loved and never married. It was the first Chanel built to look borrowed rather than inherited. It’s square and stiff, with a heavy chain and a clasp shaped like a rifle bolt instead of the soft CC turn-lock. It’s the most masculine bag Chanel makes, and the one that gets reworked most often.
This one is the rare version. The flap is galuchat, the polished skin of a stingray. The material takes its name from Jean-Claude Galluchat, the 18th-century Parisian craftsman who made it fashionable at the court of Louis XV. The surface is a field of tiny natural beads, hard as enamel and almost impossible to scratch. The pale line down the centre is the ray’s spine, so no two flaps look the same. The body is soft pink lambskin with the Boy’s stacked, quilted edges, and the hardware is aged ruthenium.
Category : Bags
House : Chanel
Model : Boy
Size : Small (Old Medium)
Material : Galuchat (Stingray) & Lambskin
Colour : Pink
Hardware : Ruthenium
Year : 2013–2014 (serial 18)
Condition : Excellent
Included : Authenticity Card, Strap
Gender : Women
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