Chanel · Tier 1

Boy

Name: Chanel Boy Medium
Brand: Chanel

Catalogued July 2026

The Chanel Boy is a structured shoulder flap bag introduced by Karl Lagerfeld for the Fall/Winter 2011 collection, named after Coco Chanel's love Boy Capel. It trades the house's soft curves for a boxier, more androgynous silhouette, with a wide quilted or embossed body and a heavy chain-and-leather strap. Its signature is the boy-style push-lock clasp on the front, a chunky rectangular latch that replaced the classic CC turn-lock. It quickly became one of Chanel's core permanent lines alongside the Classic Flap.

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Size

Mini Small · 23 cmMediumLarge Unknown

Colour

Black White Beige Brown Grey Navy Red BlueGreenPink Purple Orange Yellow Metallic Multicolor Unknown

Hardware

gold silverUnknown

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The four Chanel flap lines

You're on the Boy line. Chanel makes four flap lines that look alike but close differently, and the closure moves the price more than the color.

Made in

What the house has produced this bag in, from our sourced records.

Material

Calfskindefault, Lambskin, Caviar

Seasonal: Patent, Tweed, Velvet, Sequin, Metallic, Exotic

Construction

Diamonddefault, Chevron

Seasonal: Plain

Hardware

Rutheniumdefault, Aged gold, Gold, Silver

Seasonal: So Black

Permanent finishes are offered year-round; seasonal ones rotate and retire. A finish being listed here doesn’t mean we have one for sale right now.

The green shades we’ve recorded (2)

Dark Green153Khaki12

Shades recorded from resale listings, in the sellers’ own words. Chanel doesn’t publish official seasonal colour names, so treat these as descriptions, not house names.

What it's worth

Chanel · Boy · Medium · Green

This exact variant · 1000 recorded prices

Best listed right now: $1,515 on Fashionphile, well below the typical price (median $3,835).

Demand is light and prices are soft, so there's little pressure to move fast.

No longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.

By condition · compared like-for-like

excellent

13 prices

very good

55 prices

$1,705$6,690

Estimated from recorded resale prices (932 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-08-27.

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Where it stands

#11

of 536 styles in the LC Index

✦One number for where a bag stands in the whole market.
⚖Blended from price, trade volume, and scarcity.
◷Recomputed monthly from recorded market prices.

Our index, not a verdict. How we rank

The three measures behind #11

By priceof 536 styles

#64Garden Party · Hermès
#65Boy · Chanel
#66Capucines · Louis Vuitton

By trade volumeof 536 styles

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CHouseChanelest. 1910 · France ColourGreen

The Story

Karl Lagerfeld named Chanel's edgiest bag after the great love of Coco's life.

Origin

Named for Boy Capel

The Boy debuted in Chanel's Fall/Winter 2011 collection, introduced by Karl Lagerfeld. He named it for Arthur 'Boy' Capel, the English polo player who was Coco Chanel's muse, great love and the backer of her first stores.

SourcesSotheby's l'Étoile

Design

Built like a hunter's bag

Lagerfeld drew on a cartridge bag, the kind hunters use to carry ammunition, for a boxier, more masculine shape with bold hardware, a deliberate contrast to the soft Classic Flap.

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