"A season in, his recalibration of that name has been deep and trenchant. It's emblematised by a passage of Chanel suits in this latest show that were literally ripped apart to their tweedy bones - deconstructed, yet still identifiably, unmistakably Chanel. It's exactly what he's doing, in a wider sense, literally taking the stuffing out of the suits as well as loosening up the company as a whole."
"That is all very much from the Chanel playbook, if you're tracing it back to Gabrielle Chanel herself, a woman who equally tore the structure out of clothes, hacked open sleeves, wore men's blazers and sported underwear as outerwear before anyone had thought of such pithy terminology. It was subconscious, instinctive. Blazy is doing all that, although he does consider everything far more."
"There was even a dress in his Autumn/Winter 2026 show that he cited, backstage, as his "wedding dress", celebrating his union with Gabrielle. It was a drop-waisted 1920s thing with trailing ribbon streamers, so good he showed it thrice. "Taking something from the past - something borrowed, something blue.""
Matthieu Blazy continues his creative dialogue with Chanel by deconstructing the house's foundational elements while proposing a modernized vision. His Autumn/Winter 2026 collection features Chanel suits literally taken apart to their tweedy cores, maintaining their recognizable identity while stripping away excess structure. The collection introduces significantly lighter jackets with raw-cut hems and functional decorative chains. Blazy's approach parallels Gabrielle Chanel's original philosophy of dismantling rigid clothing structures and challenging conventional fashion norms. A standout drop-waisted 1920s-inspired dress, presented as his "wedding dress" celebrating his union with Gabrielle, exemplifies his reinterpretation of historical references through a contemporary lens.
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