{"title":"Chanel","description":"\u003cp\u003eChanel, including archival Karl Lagerfeld-era eyewear. Authenticated one-of-one pieces, shipped insured from Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chanel-chain-shield-sunglasses-black","title":"Chanel Chain Shield Sunglasses — Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChanel Chain Shield Sunglasses — Black\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKarl Lagerfeld took over creative direction at Chanel in 1983 and spent the next four decades synthesizing Coco Chanel's house codes with whatever the moment demanded. His early '90s era at Chanel is widely considered one of the most celebrated periods in the brand's history — the supermodels, the logos, the chains as ornament — and these shield sunglasses from the Fall\/Winter 1992 runway sit at the center of that vocabulary. The braided leather chain appliqué running along the brow line is a direct reference to the chains on Chanel's iconic handbags: the house's most recognizable hardware translated onto the face. Rihanna wore them in the 2000s and they have not stopped circulating since. Cut in black plastic with an oversized shield silhouette and a horizontal black-leather-and-gold chain detail running across the top of the frame. The shield reads more architectural than sporting — a single curved lens face rather than two separate eye openings — with the chain appliqué as the defining visual gesture. Both temples carry the Chanel signature. Made in Italy. The piece is in very good vintage condition: one temple closes slightly crooked when folded (not noticeable when worn), and the sunglasses arrive in a Chanel case from a later era, not the original. A documented archive piece. Lagerfeld's Fall 1992 chain shields are one of the cleaner expressions of his '90s Chanel vocabulary — house hardware translated as ornament, supermodel-era cinematic, and the kind of object that sits in a serious collector's archive rather than a casual rotation. For the buyer who reads vintage Chanel as canon, not as costume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chanel","offers":[{"title":"OS","offer_id":44097816723544,"sku":"VN-2605-2662","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1104\/5464\/files\/IMG-3639.png?v=1781646703"},{"product_id":"chanel-4040-foldable-rimless-sunglasses-silver","title":"Chanel 4040 Foldable Rimless Sunglasses — Silver","description":"\u003cp\u003eChanel's eyewear under Karl Lagerfeld is where the house's most inventive engineering lived, and this folding rimless frame from S\/S 2000 is a perfect example. It captures the turn-of-the-millennium mood — futurist, minimal, technical — while keeping the interlocking CC at the centre of the design rather than on the side of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA continuous silver-tone metal wire runs from lens to temple with no rim at all, and the polished interlocking-CC bridge doubles as the folding mechanism, so the frame collapses at the centre into something small enough to slip into a pocket. Cool blue-grey gradient lenses. Lightweight and precise throughout. Made in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a collector's frame rather than a basic pair of shades — a piece of Lagerfeld-era Chanel that speaks directly to people who know what the folding CC bridge means. Clean silver examples are increasingly hard to find, and it is the kind of quietly technical archive piece that only gets rarer. One size.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chanel","offers":[{"title":"OS","offer_id":44337169104984,"sku":"VN-2607-2700","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1104\/5464\/files\/image0_0b6d79c3-d756-4d07-ae3e-8daeea02785d.png?v=1786616855"},{"product_id":"chanel-4022-rectangle-sunglasses-brushed-gold-brown","title":"Chanel 4022 Rectangle Sunglasses — Brushed Gold\/Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eChanel entered the 2000s with an eyewear programme built on restraint rather than logo. Under Karl Lagerfeld the house pared its frames down to slim metal and precise geometry, and the 4022 is that thinking at its cleanest — part of the same early-2000s run as the 4020, 4024 and 4032, now the most actively collected chapter of the house's eyewear archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatin gold-tone metal throughout, with a flat faceted front that steps down at the outer corners into a sculpted temple hinge — the detail that gives the 4022 presence despite its slim proportions. Original solid brown lenses are marked CHANEL at both outer edges. The temples carry an engraved CHANEL plaque and taper to burgundy acetate tips, stamped inside with 4022, colour c.140\/21 and 51-21-125. Supplied with its original Chanel case. Made in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eY2K eyewear is usually collected for its excess — shields, rhinestones, logo-plastered wraps. The 4022 makes the opposite argument: small, metal and unlogoed at ten feet, reading as archive Chanel or as an anonymous pair of very good Italian frames depending on who's looking. Twenty-odd years on, that ambiguity is the point. One size.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chanel","offers":[{"title":"OS","offer_id":44470604693592,"sku":"VN-2607-2703","price":330.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1104\/5464\/files\/image0_4a5a6291-3a1b-4fb4-9afc-f065dcf29717.png?v=1785881335"}],"url":"https:\/\/shopthevaultnyc.com\/collections\/chanel.oembed","provider":"The Vault NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}