Start saving your pennies ladies, and pray they will turn into pounds…several thousand pounds..because you will desperately need them after watching Karl Lagerfeld’s advert for tribute to the Chanel jacket.

The behind-the-scenes footage is part of the hype building up for the new book by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld coming out this Autumn entitled, The Little Black Jacket.

It starts off with Georgia May Jagger being all Bardot-like in a bra and black tweed number, then moves on to Kaiser Karl describing the garment as elegant, timeless, and crossing the boundaries from once being a masculine design to becoming the ultimate symbol of femininity. True dat.

Then Carine Roitfeld, ex-editrice of Vogue Paris, dresses up as Coco and compares the classic piece to a jeans jacket. We wish.

Finally, after Alice Dellal etc sing its praises some more, Sarah Jessica Parker (wearing a jacket on her head, naturally) finishes off the offensive by labelling hers a ‘prize possession’.

We want one. So bad.

This isn’t brand brand new, having been floating around the Internet for a couple of days now, but it’s still worth a watch if you haven’t yet. So inspiring… Entirely handmade; beautiful… and has entirely fuelled our already dangerous desire for anything bearing the alluring interlocking Cs. Now we must go dust off the sewing machine…