Chanel S/S 2026 Paris

[Caffeine]

Both are interesting.
Both are also lacking the tailoring skills we saw in the prior generations, or chose not to show them. They seem to be more interested in crafts more than tailoring. (Blazy made much nicer dresses though).
Lagerfeld could create very difficult pieces, but he never forgot about the core clientele. Let's wait and see...

 

[GoldenTribe]

To those saying that Nicole Kidman's look to the show was mundane or comparing her to Martha Stewart - the pants are cashmere jeans, and the shirt is lined with Chanel's signature chainlink detail just like the tweed jackets. So, not mundane.

Thank you for the video, it was nice to be able to see the interior chain trim (circa 1min) and other details which I haven't seen pictured clearly elsewhere.

Is it even possible that this quote means anything? Is it just self-serving fantasy?
"Before the fitting that I had with Nicole, I was really lucky -- I got to Paris a couple of days early, I got to go into the atelier and just kind of give some direction and ideas that I would love to see ... that collaboration with the Chanel team was really special and important. And then we did a fitting...."
- I hope it's just playing fast and loose with the facts in service to routine social media puffery, but surely nobody at Chanel wants input from a celebrity stylist?

Separately, the fabric composition conversation in this thread has been interesting (especially in terms of how focusing on material sometimes eclipses or ignores construction and labour), but it put me in mind of how Naked & Famous makes 10% cashmere jeans for $247. Maybe as stratospherically-priced [cotton] denim is steadily normalized, we should be shocked when four-digit jeans are NOT made of cashmere or woven on vintage Japanese shuttle looms .... ? (Don't come after me for saying it!)

 

[Caffeine]

Loro Piana always made jeans with cashmere. This is not a new idea.
Chanel's jeans are priced far higher ($3k+) with 100% cotton. I'm sure that people will buy the cashmere denim offered by Chanel.
(I was told that VV's jeans were sold far better than Karl's jeans because they fit the female body better.)

 

[Nimsay]

The handbags are major flops, but honestly, Chanel’s runway bags have never been the point. The real hits always came from the design team feeding boutiques.

The minaudières? Total misses - the egg, the globe, all of it. Nothing special.

Those shallow totes looked like serving trays with straps.

The pebbled leather flaps are actually gorgeous, but the missing chain in the strap is criminal. I’d be all in if they just added that detail.

Then again it would be 10k and Id rather get another grandma bag.

 

[Creative]

On Instagram people with lot of time are posting many BV looks that are exactly like the ones in this show in a “outfits that look alike” kinda way. There’s basically nothing he didn’t do before and no one was considering him the Messiah in BV.

Fashion is such a circus.

 

[fruitdots]

On Instagram people with lot of time are posting many BV looks that are exactly like the ones in this show in a “outfits that look alike” kinda way. There’s basically nothing he didn’t do before and no one was considering him the Messiah in BV.

Fashion is such a circus.

Yeah this is probably where JWA edges out Mathieu. Maybe there were greater individual failures in the former's debut, and there were certainly things we've seen before at Loewe or his namesake brand, but I think the conclusion I've come to is that it was a stranger and more interesting attempt at working through the codes of a house.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

JWA is more irregular and you can see outfits that look totally amateurish, but when he hits, he is more surprising and creative. Mathieu is more consistent, more safe, but less daring.

Both collections were successful in what they intended, but where Chanel crushed Dior was in their strategy.
They were so much smarter.
Keeping the end of the week for themselves, not revealing anything during the previous weeks, the Awar stunt, the videos post-show with the models crying, the news in France with the new French it-designer...

Let's say that having a product of similar quality, Chanel sold it so much better.

 

[Lola701]

On Instagram people with lot of time are posting many BV looks that are exactly like the ones in this show in a “outfits that look alike” kinda way. There’s basically nothing he didn’t do before and no one was considering him the Messiah in BV.

Fashion is such a circus.

I see a lot of things that he didn’t do at BV in this collection and there are particularly more Chanel. All the jersey and satin stuff for example.
Even the flamenco skirts at Chanel are more « jupes à étages » than « jupes à volants ».

I don’t know if it’s because he didn’t worked with a stylist this time but a lot of the silhouettes were lighter.

At BV I really loved his first 2 shows and then while the talent was there, the silhouettes were just very heavy visually.

Ok he loves fringes and statements headpieces. It’s his design language.

It’s always « de bon ton » anyway to criticize a show that is well received by the press, even more when it’s a big brand anyway. If I look at the IG of the woman who posted the looks side by side, I’m kind of glad she doesn’t like it. When looking at her style, that’s exactly what I was hoping from Chanel to move from.

A lot of people have that spring 1995 collection in their moodboard or goalboard for too long now.

 

[fruitdots]

JWA is more irregular and you can see outfits that look totally amateurish, but when he hits, he is more surprising and creative. Mathieu is more consistent, more safe, but less daring.

Both collections were successful in what they intended, but where Chanel crushed Dior was in their strategy.
They were so much smarter.
Keeping the end of the week for themselves, not revealing anything during the previous weeks, the Awar stunt, the videos post-show with the models crying, the news in France with the new French it-designer...

Let's say that having a product of similar quality, Chanel sold it so much better.

I think I agree with this almost entirely, the peculiar caveat being that I also think JWA's Dior will have more longevity (if not commercially, as design). Mathieu certainly had the fortune of being more strategically placed, as you say, but I also see a bit of inertia hiding in this success. You can only have Awar hugging Blazy on the runway once (unless the goal is to turn Chanel's runway into Sonia Rykiel's), leaving open the possibility for JWA's sheer creativity and capacity for branding to win out in the long run.

 

[psychopsist]

does anyone have a link to this instagram post of the Chanel-BV side by sides?