#scenography

#scenography

Chanel's Spring Summer 2026 haute couture show transforms the Grand Palais into a pale, immersive landscape of oversized mushrooms, cascading pink foliage, and gently curving pathways. Following his celestial debut for the house (find designboom's coverage ), Matthieu Blazy continues to frame his Chanel era through world-building, shifting from a cosmic universe to an intimate, dreamlike terrain. Scattered across the pale pink floor, monumental mushroom structures rise at varying heights and diameters.

Reading this description, my eyes hung on the charged word "rubble." I learned from White Bird's Executive Director Graham Cole during his curtain speech that I could expect this story to relate to themes of nostalgia and relationship - an interpersonal and psychological "rubble" of sorts, albeit with contemporary geopolitical connotations of war, genocide, and displacement that I found hard to shake.