Already immortalized by uptown socialites and ladies-who-lunch, Chanel's quilted 2.55 handbag will be cemented in iconography this September when a 5,920 square foot gallery honoring it will appear in an undisclosed space in Manhattan as part of Chanel's mobile art project. (It's already appeared in Hong Kong and Tokyo, and will go on to London, Moscow and Paris.)
The bag, made in 1955 by Coco Chanel, and since re-interpreted by Karl Lagerfeld, is being re-re-interpreted by 20 artists, among them Yoko Ono. One artist, Nobuyoshi Araki, shot a sadomasochistic film of a woman bound with the bag's gold chain straps. It's said to be among Lagerfeld's favorite pieces. For some reason, this doesn't surprise us at all.
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