PARIS (AP) \u2014 Chanel\u2019s artistic director Matthieu Blazy sent the fashion house’s suits stretching towards sportswear and evening dresses drifting through clouds, with Nicole Kidman, Dua Lipa and Pedro Pascal in the audience as he unveiled his spring-summer 2027 collection.<\/p>\n
The Monday night show underscored that a year into his creative revival, Blazy has made the house feel newly unpredictable.<\/p>\n
The former Bottega Veneta designer succeeded Virginie Viard, who took over after Karl Lagerfeld \u2019s death in 2019. Viard\u2019s tenure brought record sales but Blazy\u2019s contribution has been to restore a sense that Chanel\u2019s familiar ingredients can produce something unexpected.<\/p>\n
That renewal is visible in his treatment of the house\u2019s symbols: tweed can stretch; formal jackets sit against bare skin; quilted bags turn slouchy.<\/p>\n
The appeal lies in giving established clients something recognizable, and newer ones something to reinterpret.<\/p>\n
Beneath illuminated birds at the Grand Palais, Blazy’s collection traced Gabrielle \u201cCoco\u201d Chanel\u2019s passage from Edwardian constraint towards the freedom she sought in dress.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about the women within a woman,\u201d Blazy wrote in his notes.<\/p>\n
Across 83 looks, that meant expanding the possibilities of a Chanel wardrobe: knits that skimmed the body, masculine tailoring, airy eveningwear and sharply abbreviated skirts.<\/p>\n
Raw-edged waistcoats and narrow skirt suits reworked men\u2019s formal clothes. A pearl-embroidered corset top paired with black trousers brought the tension between restriction and ease into focus.<\/p>\n
Older fashions lingered in ruffled collars, peplums and traces of corset boning.<\/p>\n
The strongest development was Chanel\u2019s new \u201csmocked tweed,\u201d designed to stretch and move with something of athleticwear\u2019s ease. It was a useful proposition for an expensive, familiar garment: preserve its character while improving its possibilities.<\/p>\n
Competing patterns and frothy tutus sometimes tipped towards costume. Dresses made from layered, printed silk were more persuasive, turning cloud formations and changing light into shifting color.<\/p>\n
Model Dyanira Hurbuscher opened and closed the collection \u2014 carrying Gabrielle Chanel\u2019s own 2.55 handbag, borrowed from the famed archives.<\/p>\n
That element neatly framed the collection\u2019s ambition: continuity with room for change \u2014 a balance Blazy\u2019s revitalization of Chanel rests on.<\/p>\n
He has made Chanel’s heritage feel available for play, backed by serious work in the ateliers.<\/p>\n
Lipa wore a sleeveless skirt suit with pink heels. Kidman attended with her daughter Faith Margaret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Chanel\u2019s artistic director Matthieu Blazy sent the fashion house’s suits stretching towards sportswear and evening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[52436,14525,52437,40816,2097,15577,12240,28,144,30,28195,139,138,146,140,142,143,38160],"class_list":["post-89810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-chanel-nicole-kidman-paris-fashion-week","tag-dua-lipa","tag-faith-margaret","tag-gabrielle-chanel","tag-karl-lagerfeld","tag-matthieu-blazy","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-paris","tag-pedro-pascal","tag-product-30597-ap-business-news-f-wire","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-31995-ap-online-general-financial-business-news","tag-product-32502-ap-online-europe-news","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other","tag-virginie-viard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89810","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=89810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}