Tag: Matthieu Blazy
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Reinventing Chanel Through a Modern Fairy Tale: Gaby and the Beanstalk
For his second Haute Couture collection at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy turned to one of the maison’s greatest stories: Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s own life. After discovering an antique book of fairy tales in Chanel’s personal library at Rue Cambon, the designer imagined her remarkable journey from orphan to legendary couturière as a modern fable. Aptly titled… Read more
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Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel Cruise 2027: Where Fantasy, Heritage, and Viral Luxury Collide
For his first-ever Cruise collection at Chanel, Blazy brought the maison back to one of its most historically significant locations: Biarritz, where Coco Chanel opened her first couture house in 1915. More than a century later, the house returned to the French seaside town not simply to revisit its past, but to reimagine the very… Read more
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Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture: Matthieu Blazy’s “Impossible Lightness”
Haute couture is traditionally reserved for life’s grandest stages—weddings, premieres, galas—garments engineered through hundreds of fittings, thousands of hours, and extraordinary expense. For his first haute couture collection at Chanel, however, Matthieu Blazy chose a different path. Instead of designing solely for spectacle, he returned to the philosophy of Coco Chanel herself: clothes for women… Read more
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Chanel Takes the Underground: Matthieu Blazy’s New York Vision Signals a New Era
For his first Métiers d’art collection at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy didn’t choose a palace, a museum, or a postcard-perfect landmark. Instead, he took the house underground — to a disused New York subway platform — and transformed one of the city’s most ordinary spaces into a stage for extraordinary craft. The result was not just… Read more