Style Edit: Chanel’s Paris show marks Matthieu Blazy’s haute couture debut
The show at the Grand Palais in Paris drew stars including Nicole Kidman, Dua Lipa, Penélope Cruz, A$AP Rocky, Gracie Abrams, Tilda Swinton and Margaret Qualley
The maison turned the Grand Palais, the historic exhibition complex where Chanel holds all its shows, into a dreamy garden of candy-coloured trees and giant pink and red mushrooms.
Before the first model walked down the runway clad in a sheer skirt suit, Blazy showcased an animated short starring fairy-tale animals such as squirrels at work in the Chanel ateliers, Cinderella style. The teaser was also unveiled on social media ahead of the show.
Lightness was a running thread in a collection that took the maison’s most famous codes – the suit, the pearls, the chain-weighted hems – and made them feel almost weightless.
The idea of women being as free as birds was the starting point. In the collection notes, Blazy quoted an anonymously credited haiku to emphasise the idea of freedom of movement, a core element of Chanel’s fashion heritage.
