Little Black Jacket

Chanel Exhibition Tokyo

In an era where timelessness is being reevaluated, the little black jacket is making a comeback. Karl Lagerfeld has seized the opportunity with the launch of an exhibition, with an accompanying book, The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited, co-written with Carine Roitfeld.  “Some things never go out of fashion,” he says. “Jeans, the white shirt, and the Chanel jacket.”

This season’s LBJ goes into several house signatures: from collarless, to cropped, three-quarter-length sleeves, to the edge to edge closed. The LBJ’s defining features is that the jackets are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the out, and so opulently line with dazzling lame.