{"id":63271,"date":"2026-08-10T02:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/63271\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:19:02","slug":"style-edit-chanels-paris-haute-couture-show-was-a-storybook-brought-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/63271\/","title":{"rendered":"Style Edit: Chanel\u2019s Paris haute couture show was a storybook brought to life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chanel is always one of the most highly anticipated outings on the Paris Couture Week calendar, and Matthieu Blazy certainly didn\u2019t disappoint this past season. For fall\/winter 2026-27, Blazy made sure the follow-up to his first couture outing for the maison<\/a> felt less like a collection presentation and more like a storybook brought to life.\"ChanelChanel incorporated the mythical plant from the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk into its haute couture fall\/winter 2026-27 show. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

Staged at the Grand Palais, the show turned the Salon d\u2019Honneur into a fairy-tale landscape of giant flowers, hanging chairs, climbing vines and oversized vases, with a watercolour painter live-sketching the scene as the show was under way.<\/p>\n

\"AA model wears a tweed hat at Chanel\u2019s haute couture fall\/winter 2026-27 show in Paris in July. Photo: ReutersBlazy\u2019s inspiration came from a fairy-tale book discovered in Gabrielle \u201cCoco\u201d Chanel<\/a>\u2019s library, and the collection leaned into that sense of whimsy. \u201cI started to wonder, was Gabrielle Chanel\u2019s life a fairy tale?\u201d Blazy wrote in his show notes. \u201c[I] asked myself if, together with the haute couture ateliers, we could make garments that tell stories like a book.\u201d\"TheThe fairy tale-themed presentation marked Matthieu Blazy\u2019s sophomore haute couture collection for Chanel. Photo: HandoutThe opening looks set the tone with sheer, reimagined suits in checks. When you look closely, you\u2019ll see the checks are in fact rendered in three-dimensional braided ropes. Floral appliqu\u00e9s were used liberally across skirts, suits and dresses, while the accessories took on a more playful note with bean- and animal-shaped minaudi\u00e8res which married fashion and jewellery<\/a>.\"AA look from the Chanel haute couture fall\/winter 2026-27 collection. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

Following drop-waist column dresses came airy lingerie-inspired pieces in soft hues. Translucent fabrics, flowing skirts, and cuts that bared the skin in all the right places conjured an array of fairy-like silhouettes which looked elegant and ethereal while channelling a childlike sense of wonder.<\/p>\n

\"TranslucentTranslucent fabrics in soft hues became ethereal dresses at Chanel. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chanel is always one of the most highly anticipated outings on the Paris Couture Week calendar, and Matthieu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39222,2096,12600,39224,19377,12759,39221,15577,30,12602,39223],"class_list":["post-63271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-blazy","tag-chanel","tag-couture","tag-goldilocks","tag-grand-palais","tag-haute-couture","tag-jack-and-the-beanstalk","tag-matthieu-blazy","tag-paris","tag-paris-couture-week","tag-salon-dhonneur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}