Chanel Sand By The Sea Flap Bag PVC and Lambskin
Chanel Sand By The Sea Flap Bag PVC and Lambskin
From Chanel's SS19 beach runway, the show staged on real sand inside the Grand Palais, this is the collection's idea made literal: a classic flap silhouette in transparent PVC with actual sand sealed inside the body's chambers. Your essentials sit visibly in the bag as if half-buried at the shoreline, a piece of runway theatre engineered into a carryable object. Black lambskin frames the flap and trim, and the pale gold chain runs through it for shoulder carry, keeping the house codes intact around the transparent center.
The contrast is the point: beach-toy material handled with flap-bag construction, quilting logic translated to PVC, and the CC turn-lock anchoring it all as unmistakably Chanel. Runway novelty pieces from this era were produced for a single season and never repeated, and the sand bags became one of the most photographed accessories of the show.
Condition: 2 – Excellent
Collection: SS19 Runway
Color: Clear / Black
Material: PVC / Lambskin
Hardware: Pale Gold
Includes: Box, Dustbag, Ribbon, Camellia, Authenticity Card
Dimensions: 26.7 × 14 × 7.6 cm | 10.5" × 5.5" × 3"
Collector's Insight:
Single-season runway novelties have become one of the strongest collecting lanes in the Lagerfeld-era Chanel catalog, and the sand-filled PVC pieces sit among the most recognizable of them: instantly dateable to one show, produced in small numbers, and impossible to mistake for anything else the house has made. Surviving examples with the full presentation set are the ones the lane is built on.
Resale Insight:
Transparent and novelty-material Chanel from the runway years trades on recognizability rather than configuration math, and demand concentrates every spring as the pieces resurface in resort styling. PVC is unforgiving of wear, so an excellent example with box, camellia, and authenticity card holds the strongest position the piece realistically survives in.
The JaneFinds Standard
1 – Pristine, shows little to no evidence of wear, age, or handling
2 – Excellent, exceptionally well maintained with very minor signs of use
3 – Very Good, gently used with slight signs of wear
4 – Good, exhibits signs of wear and regular use
5 – Vintage / Well-Loved, significant wear from extensive use, disclosed in full
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