Chanel #2

( 80cm x 100cm, 2025 ) Shows a Nigerian bag-and-shoe seller in Peckham, green Chanel lookalike tote in hand, taking a familiar street moment and stretching it into a quiet reflection on consumerism, worth, and global inequality. In that single figure, Sinatra Zantout turns attention to the working women who keep informal trade moving, all while brushing up against the edge of luxury culture without ever being fully let in. The fake bag does more than copy a logo. It marks the gap between the people who sell the dream and the people who cash in on it, and it nudges a harder thought too, that the materials, labour, and resources propping up luxury often start in places like Nigeria. Set within Zantout’s broader interest in identity, work, and histories people tend to miss, the painting asks you to see commerce as more than a simple swap, it’s also extraction, survival, and desire braided together.