The original Chanel 2.55 quilted handbag. Art from the exhibitMore art from the exhibit

The Chanel Mobile Art site

For fifty years Chanel has been making the iconic 2.55 quilted handbag. Fashion and product design have rarely been more luxurious. The bag’s quilted pattern, originally inspired by a combination of jockey’s riding coats, stained glass windows of French abbeys and the cushions in Coco Chanel’s Parisian apartment has become a fashion accomplice to incisive ladies around the world. The quilted stitch herringbone pattern bags represent a level of quality, class and panache often imitated but never duplicated.
To celebrate the timelessness of Coco’s original quilted bag, Chanel commissioned modern artists by the likes of Tabaimo, Wim Delvoye, Yoko Ono, Loris Cecchini and Michael Lin to interpret the iconic quilted bag with their own vision. The result is brilliance from quilted guitars to 360 degree multimedia pieces.
Chanel displays the art in a traveling museum, called the Chanel Mobile Art Container, designed by architect Zaha Hadid, this is an amazing piece of art in itself. Looking somewhat like an eccentric alien spacecraft with its curvilinear forms. It will travel around the world. Currently in Tokyo the roving gallery will also be stopping in Hong Kong, New York, London, Moscow and Paris.
The Mobile Art show takes the brand experience to the next level by creating a cultural event via fashion, design and architecture, where Chanel expresses all the values that makes it one of the most respected players in the fashion world. This traveling gallery of quilted culture and style will be landing at New York City’s Central Park in October.
Click through the links below to get more info about the experience now.

Chanel Mobile Art website
Chanel Mobile Art in pictures via IHT