Matthieu Blazy’s First Steps Among the Stars at Chanel S/S26

For his highly anticipated debut at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy turned the Grand Palais Éphémère into a dreamscape—an imagined constellation where Gabrielle Chanel’s universe met his own. Closing Paris Fashion Week, Blazy delivered a Spring/Summer 2026 collection that felt glamorous and powerful—a study of modern women’s beauty through universality.

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“I wanted to do something quite universal, like a dream, something outside of time,” Blazy said. “We all observe the same sky.” That sense of shared wonder—the universality of looking up—became the show’s emotional core. Against a celestial backdrop, his Chanel woman felt unbound: free in form, movement, and meaning.

The show opened with masculine-feminine silhouettes—slouchy jackets, languid trousers, and houndstooth tailoring inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s own borrowed wardrobe. Yet Blazy’s ease of hand brought fluidity where rigidity once stood. The looks were confident but never loud, polished yet nonchalant, the kind of sophistication that speaks softly but leaves an echo.

Tweed, of course, was reborn in countless forms—frayed, featherlight, hand-beaded, or unravelled to reveal delicate organza beneath. Hidden weights were flipped outward into visible chains, a subtle act of rebellion against convention. Camellias bloomed at monumental scales, unfurling across skirts and lapels, while midi skirts sliced high at the thigh and floor-length maxis trailed behind like afterthoughts of movement.

Accessories provided punctuation: oversized fringed hats, statement jewels that glimmered like constellations, and two-toned heels that grounded the ethereality. There was motion in every hem, rhythm in every sway—a freedom that felt distinctly Blazy.

Matthieu Blazy didn’t attempt to rewrite the house codes—he reimagined the conversation. Between earth and sky, masculine and feminine, structure and softness, his Chanel found its own gravity—a dream, but one with both feet elegantly on the ground.

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