Matthieu Blazy Updates Chanel Style as Paris Fashion Week Concludes
- Coco Chanel designed her postwar suit so women could move, and seven decades later, designer Matthieu Blazy has made it stretch.
- Transforming female attire is how Chanel earned its reputation, and a year after stepping into his role as designer, Blazy is now applying that same concept to the...
- Blazy came from Bottega Veneta to succeed the longtime right hand of Karl Lagerfeld, Virginie Viard, who took over after Lagerfeld’s death in 2019.
Coco Chanel designed her postwar suit so women could move, and seven decades later, designer Matthieu Blazy has made it stretch.
Smocked Tweed And Stretching Silhouettes On The Chanel Runway
The fabric gives like sportswear, but the idea is old. Transforming female attire is how Chanel earned its reputation, and a year after stepping into his role as designer, Blazy is now applying that same concept to the brand’s classic uniform. Louis Vuitton concluded Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday evening with Zendaya present in the audience while car sculptures floated above the runway at the Louvre Museum. That event marked the final major presentation of a spring runway circuit that kicked off in New York during the previous month.
Blazy came from Bottega Veneta to succeed the longtime right hand of Karl Lagerfeld, Virginie Viard, who took over after Lagerfeld’s death in 2019. Viard’s tenure brought record sales. Blazy’s has brought back surprise. He loosens the house’s symbols rather than replacing them. Tweed stretches. Jackets go on over bare skin. Quilted bags slouch. Longtime clients still recognize the codes; newer ones are invited to play with them.
The History Of Escape Staged At The Grand Palais
During the current season, Blazy presented Gabrielle Coco Chanel’s existence as a journey of liberation: moving from the stiff tailoring and corsets of her youth in the Edwardian era, through the borrowed menswear she adopted, all the way to the relaxed suits of her comeback following the war. It’s about the women within a woman,
Blazy said. Accompanied by her daughter Faith Margaret, Kidman also provided audio recordings of passages from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, featuring a central figure who transcends centuries and shifts gender. Kidman won an Oscar for portraying Woolf in The Hours.
Singing along to a-ha’s Take On Me were Kidman, Lipa, Pascal, and Alexa Demie, while Britney Spears’ Gimme More brought the presentation to a close. Edwardian dress lingered in traces of boning, peplums, and ruffled collars. Men’s formal wear was cut down into raw-edged vests and narrow skirt suits. By pairing a pearl-stitched corset top with simple black trousers, the narrative of escape gained complexity, turning restriction into part of the allure. Walking as both the opening and closing model, Dyanira Hurbuscher carried the founder’s personal 2.55 handbag retrieved from the brand’s archives, representing freedom while keeping the past firmly gripped in her hands.
Louis Vuitton Lightens Up At The Cour Carrée
As a brand ambassador, Zendaya introduced a casual vibe to the front row by combining jeans with the white lace ruffled jacket she had previously worn for the Paris debut of The Odyssey. Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, Blackpink’s Lisa, Sophie Turner, and Catherine Deneuve also attended. Throughout the French capital, creators pursued comparable directions by blending formal garments with athletic wear, exposing undergarments to the public gaze, and infusing intricate ornaments with a sense of weightlessness.