Chanel Pre-Fall 2026 New York

[Lola701]

The shade , I didn't know you have that in you, I thought you were chicer.

The real question is do you have 5k for that “I ❤️ NY” t-shirt???

Lol. I try to not be shady in an uncontrolled way but those looks deserved that.

Ahaha. No but bless the ones who got it. I’m curious to see/know if it’s regular cotton embroidered like Virginie did or if it’s another fabric. But as @PDFSD said…More like 10K.

I really don’t like the idea of tshirts in Metiers d’Arts. Karl only did them for resort and main collections. Ok if its silk, organza embroidered but a regular cotton tshirt at 10K…NEVER!

 

[Lola701]

I have real issues with the 1st look you like, the beige zip-up sweater with a white T and washed jeans.
In my opinion, that level of weekend normcore should never be shown on a Chanel runway.
I understand Chanel customers also wear normcore (either from Loro Piana or Cuccinelli for instance) and they can have it in their store but showing it just muddies the Chanel imaginery imho.
Hard to sell complimentary high-jewelry with that look.

I like the look as an attitude, also quite intrigued on the fabrics used on the sweater. It’s not something that I would necessarily go for at Chanel but I find it refreshing. I have always find those kind of « moments » from either Karl or Virginie refreshing and a nice break from the sameness that can be daywear at Chanel.
But I get your point.
I can literally recreate that look today for less. It’s not inspiring but those are things I can sometimes appreciate on runway shows.

 

[PDFSD]

And I am wondering: are these references just a coincidence, or the result of deliberate research?

Working on a fashion show concept is rarely accidental: it demands a complex orchestration between the brand, the creative director, the marketing, communication and events departments, and the external production agencies and partners: all dynamics that require to be calibrated with great precision.

Fabio Becheri

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

According to Models, there was a movement director (Emma Chadwick) in this show... LAMO with that finale

 

[yslforever]

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I like the look as an attitude, also quite intrigued on the fabrics used on the sweater. It’s not something that I would necessarily go for at Chanel but I find it refreshing. I have always find those kind of « moments » from either Karl or Virginie refreshing and a nice break from the sameness that can be daywear at Chanel.
But I get your point.
I can literally recreate that look today for less. It’s not inspiring but those are things I can sometimes appreciate on runway shows.

Yes I understand your POV, it can look fresh on runways from time to time and tbh people buy it, I just don’t see it and this level of randomness and normcore on a Chanel runway.
Between this and the ultra-complicated looks with feather boas or the animalier ones, they look confused in their storytelling, about what Chanel is.
They just don’t know who they are anymore and that’s concerning to me.
Going from a mega planetarium set to a semi pedestrian but rat-free subway station doesn’t help either.
They just can’t be both an ultra-glam grandiose brand and a next-door subway-taking Lower East Side brand at the same time.

 

[Caffeine]

I like the look as an attitude, also quite intrigued on the fabrics used on the sweater. It’s not something that I would necessarily go for at Chanel but I find it refreshing. I have always find those kind of « moments » from either Karl or Virginie refreshing and a nice break from the sameness that can be daywear at Chanel.
But I get your point.
I can literally recreate that look today for less. It’s not inspiring but those are things I can sometimes appreciate on runway shows.

I don't have a problem with the first look either, but the fit, esp. as the opening look, is disturbing.
Can you imagine Karl ever, ever, ever to send a look down the runway with the jean button exposed due to poor fit?
Ever?

This shows the company's attitude more than a fashion attitude.

 

[fenty]

The randomness of it! I don’t see the difference of this to an Alessandro Michele collection? Even the location is so Alessandro x Gucci the first womenswear show and advertising campaign.

I was thinking this as well.. It felt like a Gucci by AM Cruise Show. I think he would've been a better fit for Gucci and potentially save Kering from going down under versus taking the creative director position at Chanel.

 

[TianCouture]

It's frying me that the RTW women on The Purse Forum think that their SA's put pressure on Blazy to put the word "CHANEL" vertically as buttons on jackets so there is something that would resonate with them, the customers. For the last 5 years the "CHANEL" has been slapped relentlessly onto everything from sweaters to rain boots. Just say you only want it if it is clearly Chanel and viewable from outerspace. Enough fuzzy wuzzy sweaters and jewelry for toddlers.

We're at this really weird junction of genuine creativity slamming into unabashed consumerism, maybe why the models just directly walked into each other? There's a lot of good here, there's a lot of bad here. IDK what else to say.

 

[chanelh]

AND YOU ALL CAN FORGET ABOUT COUTURE
with his sense of cutting and silhouette, I can't even imagine how sloppy his couture debut would be

 

[THD96]

I don't have a problem with the first look either, but the fit, esp. as the opening look, is disturbing.
Can you imagine Karl ever, ever, ever to send a look down the runway with the jean button exposed due to poor fit?
Ever?

This shows the company's attitude more than a fashion attitude.

Don't you remember the opening look from the supermarket collection on Cara? Let's not pretend Karl didn't send out some really questionable mistakes down the runway. But that's part of the charm of his Chanel, that's the part of his worldbuilding, and I find it far more convincing than the ultra strict, highly curated, safe looks from others.

They just don’t know who they are anymore and that’s concerning to me.
Going from a mega planetarium set to a semi pedestrian but rat-free subway station doesn’t help either.
They just can’t be both an ultra-glam grandiose brand and a next-door subway-taking Lower East Side brand at the same time

But why can't Chanel be both? You know Chanel women under Karl they can be anything his imagination wants them to be. They could be “nouveau rapper”, farm girl, to to the supermarket, protest on the street, etc…
The thing is Karl is not afraid to take Chanel to the street, and that is his key to updating the brand to the now. He is respecting Gabrielle ( in some aspect) but he is also challenges the status quo and the taste of his clients. That's how you move the brand forward.
I think it is good that Matthieu is keeping the spirit with Karl. I want him to be even bolder he is more comfortable at the house, like how Karl goes in the 90s.

 

[psychopsist]

I pretty much agree with this. Some of those patterns are truly hideous and even if we set aside that, they’re definitely not convincingly Chanel. 81 looks is also kinda ridiculous and while some shows “it should’ve been edited down” is a tweak, for me here it’s a pretty foundational issue to the whole collection and perhaps to his approach to Chanel.

What I do like is hard to attribute to “the collection” because it’s just all so disparate. It’s like he’s doing a “greatest hits” album without having ever charted. I really was hopeful but his ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ ethos doesn’t work for me. The only message it sends is “clothes exist.” Which I already knew.

 

[Lola701]

I don't have a problem with the first look either, but the fit, esp. as the opening look, is disturbing.
Can you imagine Karl ever, ever, ever to send a look down the runway with the jean button exposed due to poor fit?
Ever?

This shows the company's attitude more than a fashion attitude.

Come on she is walking and she is skinny. At least we get to see the buttons by Desrues and Goosens. And if one thing the fit is intentional.
The variety of proposition clearly shows that looser and more fitted silhouettes are totally intentional.
I can understand that it’s is styling proposition you don’t subscribe to.

Karl has showed Questionable denim looks, Ill fitted oversized suits on skinny girls.
Even on his last few collections.

And I have been on this forum enough time to remember the time, literally all seasons, when people were saying that he should retire just because people didn’t like a few looks on his shows.

And considering that Karl has started to reintroduce big volumes in his collections around 2011, it may indeed reflect the company attitude.

I don’t see no quality issue here. The few issues are clearly the hideous looks.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I do like the leopard skirts and the dork in me likes the Superman sweater

 

[thiago:)]

Gosh, I hate that Vogue charges us to see full collections. I haven't seen everything yet so I don't have an opinion... I wouldn't take this collection as seriously as a Fall one, though.

 

[Kennnnn]

I'm sorry to ask this but did they do something about the smell of the subway? Did they fumigate the place with Chanel No 5?

 

[disco54]

AND YOU ALL CAN FORGET ABOUT COUTURE
with his sense of cutting and silhouette, I can't even imagine how sloppy his couture debut would be

1000% His couture is going to be a joke

 

[carla56]

I've never been a fan of Chanel, but in just two seasons it became my favorite brand with TF by HA, the only two who make me say WOW! I think Matthieu is the master of skirts, since his first BV show, skirts have always been the highlight of his collections and here again the animalier one on Julia Nobis is to die for!!!

 

[Lola701]

Gosh, I hate that Vogue charges us to see full collections. I haven't seen everything yet so I don't have an opinion... I wouldn't take this collection as seriously as a Fall one, though.

You can see them on WWD.
I have a couple of looks saved on my phone but uploading 83 looks is another task lol.

 

[Snejana Onopka]

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And I am wondering: are these references just a coincidence, or the result of deliberate research?

Working on a fashion show concept is rarely accidental: it demands a complex orchestration between the brand, the creative director, the marketing, communication and events departments, and the external production agencies and partners: all dynamics that require to be calibrated with great precision.

Fabio Becheri

i know for a fact that blazy sometimes has nightmares with you as nicole kidman in stepford wifes dragging his collections and clocking his references 😭

 

[PDFSD]

i know for a fact that blazy sometimes has nightmares with you as nicole kidman in stepford wifes dragging his collections and clocking his references 😭

i see so much but 81 looks .....i just can't be bothered anymore it was exhausting seeing the show already and the ig videos of influencers.

everyone liking it is cherry picking parts .....while the real issue is its just too random and ugly mostly and directionless.....it truly reflect a confused world with engineered positivity to disguise it all and easily blinded by the latest shiny object.

and i think the..... its ok its ugly because KL and VV did ugly stuff to is a cheap excuse.... the goal of a new CD is to not repeat past mistakes if they wanted a new direction ...its giving Trump's excuse for everything that's wrong in USA to Biden or Hillary or Obama as fault lol

KL did 36 years VV was there almost als long they are much much older people........ what is Blazy´s excuse with being obsessed with bad 80´s fit and jaring colors and prints and styling ? he wants to be the new NG ? or Alessandro?