Matthieu Blazy presents his second couture collection for Chanel in Paris at the Grand Palais, turning the venue and the clothing into a fairy-tale environment. Multiple outlets describe a dark, whimsical salon-like installation featuring an imagined garden “gone wrong,” with giant beanstalks reaching toward the ceiling and oversized flowers blooming in a way that appears uncontrolled. The show is framed as a continuation of Blazy’s fairy-tale approach, drawing on references associated with Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Wallpaper and Channel NewsAsia note motifs connected to storybook fantasy as well as everyday realities, suggesting the collection blends whimsy with functional, wearable ideas. The Independent similarly focuses on the overall staging and atmosphere, emphasizing the surreal garden elements and their vivid scale. Inquirer.net highlights Blazy’s concept of garments as carriers of stories, comparing clothes to books and pointing to collaboration with Chanel’s haute couture ateliers. Across coverage, the couture show is presented as a mix of imaginative narrative styling, immersive set design, and Blanche’s ongoing exploration of how clothing can feel both fantastical and grounded.
Matthieu Blazy’s second Chanel couture show stages a dark fairy-tale at Paris’ Grand Palais
Matthieu Blazy presents his second couture collection for Chanel in Paris at the Grand Palais, turning the venue and the clothing into a fairy-tale environment. Multiple outlets describe a dark, whims...
- Matthieu Blazy stages his second couture show for Chanel in Paris at the Grand Palais.
- The venue is transformed into a dark fairy-tale setting described as a “garden gone wrong.”
- Set details mentioned include giant beanstalks reaching to the ceiling and oversized flowers blooming dramatically.
- Blazy’s concept is described as linking clothing to stories, with references to Chanel’s creative heritage and Coco Chanel’s life.
- Coverage emphasizes a blend of fantasy motifs with everyday, practical elements in the collection.
“Together with the Haute Couture ateliers, we explored the idea of clothes that carry stories, like books”...Keep on reading: Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel fairy tale continues with whimsical couture show
1 month agoThe designer’s sophomore couture outing for the house looked towards a book of fairy tales from Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s library, for a collection that married fantasy and function
1 month agoAt his second Chanel couture show in Paris, Blazy drew on Gabrielle Chanel’s life, storybook motifs and everyday realities to make the house feel lighter, stranger and more alive.
1 month agoInside the Grand Palais in Paris, the Chanel salon had been swallowed by a garden gone wrong: giant beanstalks climbing to the ceiling and huge flowers blooming a little too brightly to be safe
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