Chanel 26A Métiers d’Art Double-C Superman Jacquard Crewneck – Royal Blue – UnisexP82471-K11923-UA547

Chanel 26A Métiers d’Art Double-C Superman Jacquard Crewneck – Royal Blue

The Chanel 26A Métiers d’Art crewneck whose graphic is not a print — it is the fabric. The intarsia Superman shield motif at the center chest, the double-C monogram at its center, is constructed entirely through precision three-color jacquard knitting: three yarn colors — royal blue ground, yellow shield field, red shield outline — interwoven directly on the knitting machine in the same pass as the garment body, producing a graphic whose edges are as sharp and color-boundary-precise as the knit structure permits, and whose interior float threads are controlled to a length that neither creates surface bulk nor abrades the skin on the interior. The shell is a high-ratio wool-cashmere blend, combed to remove short-fiber impurities, pre-shrunk and set before cutting. The full-garment construction in four-needle flat-knit stitch: dense, even, without dropped stitches or sparse zones, the knit surface reading as full and three-dimensional with its own natural drape weight. Widened, high-density rib at collar, cuffs, and hem. Unisex. The Chanel piece that places the house’s double-C monogram inside a Superman shield and knits it directly into the garment.

Why You’ll Love It

• Three-Color Jacquard Knitting – Superman Shield with Double-C Monogram, Formed Directly on the Loom: The Superman shield graphic — royal blue ground, yellow shield field, red shield outline, double-C monogram at center — is constructed through precision intarsia jacquard knitting, not applied to the garment after assembly. Intarsia jacquard: the knitting technique in which multiple yarn colors are knitted simultaneously in the same course, each color working only in its designated zone with floats (yarn carried across the interior) managed to a controlled length so that the interior surface is smooth and non-abrasive. The three-color system on this garment: royal blue (the ground yarn, knitting the entire garment body), yellow (the shield field, working only within the shield’s boundary zone), and red (the shield outline, working only at the boundary between the blue ground and the yellow field). The quality criteria the brief specifies for this jacquard: no yarn jumps, no misknitted stitches, no missed threads; color-boundary edges that are clean and tight — the adjacent color zones locked together stitch-by-stitch with no gap or color bleed at the boundary; interior float threads controlled to a length that does not create surface ridging on the garment’s exterior or a rough, abrasive surface on the interior against the body. The double-C monogram at the shield’s center: knitted into the yellow field as a two-color intarsia within the shield’s own jacquard zone — the Chanel credential at the center of the pop-culture reference, the house monogram placed inside the Superman shield in a four-color total knit structure.
• High-Ratio Wool-Cashmere Blend – Combed, Pre-Shrunk, Structural Body with Cashmere Hand-Feel: The yarn specification: a high-ratio wool-cashmere blend in which the wool component provides the garment’s structural properties and the cashmere component provides the hand-feel. Wool at high ratio: the fiber that gives the knit garment its self-supporting structure — the yarn tension and fiber resilience that produce a knit fabric with a firm, three-dimensional knit surface that holds its stitch definition and silhouette without sagging, the “structural skeleton” quality the brief specifies. Cashmere at high ratio: the fiber that produces the soft, fine, non-irritating hand-feel against skin — the cashmere component that gives the blend its lightweight, no-static, skin-contact properties despite the structural wool content. Combed processing: the yarn combed before knitting to remove short-fiber impurities — the short fibers that cause pilling, surface fuzz, and the skin-irritation that unwashed or uncombed wool produces against bare skin. The combed, high-ratio blend: the yarn that delivers structural definition on the exterior and cashmere-equivalent skin-contact on the interior simultaneously. Pre-shrunk and set before cutting: the garment-preparation process that stabilizes the knit’s dimensions before the collar, cuff, and hem ribs are attached, reducing post-wash shrinkage and the dimensional relaxation that an unshrunk knit would exhibit through the first washing cycles.
• Four-Needle Flat-Knit Construction – Dense, Even, Full-Surface Stitch Definition: The full garment knitted in a four-needle flat-knit stitch — the knit construction that produces the dense, even, fully-covered fabric surface the brief specifies. Four-needle flat-knit: a knit structure in which four needles work in sequence to produce a fabric with greater stitch density per unit area than a two-needle or three-needle flat-knit, with a correspondingly fuller, more three-dimensional surface texture. The brief’s quality criteria for the four-needle flat-knit: no dropped stitches, no sparse zones, no irregular stitch density — the fabric surface reading as consistently dense and even across the full garment panel from shoulder to hem. The four-needle construction’s consequence for the jacquard zone: the higher stitch density at which the Superman shield’s three-color boundary is executed means more stitches per centimeter at the color edges, and therefore more precise color-boundary definition than a lower-density knit structure would produce at the same graphic scale.
• Widened High-Density Rib – Collar, Cuffs, Hem, Anti-Roll, Anti-Deformation: The collar, cuffs, and hem finished in a widened, high-density rib — the rib trim specification that the brief defines through its performance criteria: natural, consistent stretch; resistance to rolling, curling, and edge distortion after repeated stretching; no permanent deformation or sagging through extended wear. Widened: the rib band wider than the standard trim width, providing more rib courses at the collar, cuff, and hem to distribute the elastic recovery load across a greater fabric depth, reducing the per-course strain that causes premature rib relaxation. High-density: the rib needle pitch tighter than standard, producing a rib surface with more stitches per centimeter and correspondingly greater lateral rigidity at the band’s edges — the edge that resists rolling because the stitch density prevents the terminal course from having sufficient flexibility to curl. The widened high-density rib at all three trim positions: the consistent finish standard that makes the collar, cuffs, and hem read as a designed system rather than a functional default.
• Panel Seam Construction – Even Stitch Spacing, Consistent Seam Line, Fine Overlocking: The garment panel seams — shoulder, side, sleeve — sewn with consistent stitch spacing, a flat, even seam line, and fine overlocking at the seam edge. The brief’s panel seam criteria: flat, even seam line without puckering or waviness; consistent stitch spacing that reads as a designed finish rather than an assembly variable; fine overlocking at the raw edge that is not visible as bulk at the seam on the garment’s exterior. The panel seam as a finishing quality indicator: on a knit garment at this weight and stitch density, the seam’s flatness and stitch consistency are visible as the boundary between the front and back panels, and an inconsistent seam reads immediately as a quality reduction against the four-needle flat-knit’s dense, even surface.
• Chanel 26A Métiers d’Art – Double-C Superman, Pop-Culture Reference in the House Archive: The 26A Métiers d’Art collection’s double-C Superman: the design decision that places Chanel’s double-C monogram inside the Superman shield — the pop-culture graphic whose silhouette is one of the most immediately recognizable in the twentieth century, re-centered with the Chanel credential. The jacquard construction that makes this graphic a knit structure rather than a print: the Superman shield exists in the fabric’s own thread architecture, not as an application on the surface, and the double-C at its center is knitted into the jacquard zone as the credential within the reference. The Chanel 26A Métiers d’Art piece that is simultaneously the most technically demanding knit in this catalog session and the most immediately legible graphic statement in the full catalog.
• Unisex – 26A Métiers d’Art Proportions: The double-C Superman jacquard crewneck proportioned for both male and female bodies across sizes 36–40 — the fitted-to-regular knit silhouette appropriate to the Métiers d’Art collection’s precision-knit pieces.

Size Guide

Note: All measurements are taken flat. A 1–3 cm variance is within normal range.

Fabric Composition

• Yarn: High-Ratio Wool-Cashmere Blend, Combed, Pre-Shrunk & Set
• Construction: Four-Needle Flat-Knit, Full Garment
• Graphic: Three-Color Intarsia Jacquard — Superman Shield with Double-C Monogram, Knitted Directly on Loom
• Trim: Widened High-Density Rib — Collar, Cuffs & Hem

Care Instructions

• Hand wash cold (max 30°C) — gentle cycle to preserve jacquard structure, color boundary integrity, and rib shape
• Lay flat to dry — do not hang; the wool-cashmere blend’s weight when wet will stretch the knit structure if hung
• Do not tumble dry
• Low-temperature iron only — do not iron directly over jacquard zone; heat will compress the knit pile and disrupt stitch definition in the Superman shield
• Do not bleach
• Dry clean recommended to preserve combed yarn finish, jacquard color boundary precision, and rib dimensional stability

SKU: P82471-K11923-UA547  |  Available in sizes 36–40  |  Unisex  |  Chanel 26A Métiers d’Art