Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

[90sfan]

LOL at the narrative being spun that he's this quiet genius but he's one of those snakes🐍🐍🐍

Exactly! But the Blazy Snake is surrounded by other snakes. So a snake might sooner or later come bite his *** in the end. 👻

 

[Xone]

 

[Salvatore]

^^ Individually, they may be fine ... but collectively, they just do not sound like a fun bunch to be around and flat like a Dutch birthday party (iykyk) (sorry my Dutchies lol)

 

[GivenchyAddict]

I-D should have kept this interview: I had never read it before, and I was just fine. Now, I dislike the three even more. 😅

 

[disco54]

I reviewed his collections over the past years and its largely Phoebe Philo 2.0 but not as appealing , Blazy will really have to reference Karl's work because no way the sh!t at BV will appeal to Chanel chicks. In that regard I hate say it but Hedi nailed it with his last collection for Celine but his strong ego and Diva drama would be very problematic considering Nair is brutal in terms of control. Nair and corporate wanted a yes mam! designer who would do their bidding. I just don't think he has the chops for couture at all and that's going to be an issue down the road. Also Blazy's work does not have that French Gamine vibe at all, he really has to study the archives otherwise he will be done in year , two tops.

 

[Grets]

Just waiting for the Raf stans to make TikTok explainers for the septuagenarian Chanel ladies that will never watch them.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

I'm sorry.... All 3 of them still smoke...? Pee-yew! You're supposed to grow out of it by middle age, no? Just sick and sad!

 

[MulletProof]

^ their partners though.. go, amplified organ breath! 😷

I-D should have kept this interview: I had never read it before, and I was just fine. Now, I dislike the three even more. 😅

why did you do that to yourself though? ‘raf’ was your clue!

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^ I know… the moment he said he took a screenshot because it’s historic I should have stopped.

I hate this man. He is so dry.

 

[blueorchid]

Blazy will really have to reference Karl's work because no way the sh!t at BV will appeal to Chanel chicks

I enjoy Karl and his work, but jesus christ... even HE wouldn't want people to focus on his work so much like this after death. I don't want to say let it go, but LET IT GO! We can't keep living in the past and be stuck in a state of permanent nostalgia.

 

[disco54]

I enjoy Karl and his work, but jesus christ... even HE wouldn't want people to focus on his work so much like this after death. I don't want to say let it go, but LET IT GO! We can't keep living in the past and be stuck in a state of permanent nostalgia.

Your points here are moot, Chanel has very strong house codes , Karl honored those codes and his enormous body of work is what is sustaining Chanel till now.

 

[blueorchid]

No, I understand that very well. At some point you do have to let the past be in the past, Karl knew that too and "honored" it as well. Karl didn't design Chanel the way Coco left it when she died in 1971 and Blazy shouldn't be designing Chanel the way Karl left it in 2019 or the way Virginie designed it... at all. I don't give one sh*t about Blazy as a designer, to be honest, but the fact that so many people are gnashing their teeth and expecting the worst is utterly bizarre. I'm certainly not crying for a designer who gets criticism, but how do we realistically know what he's going to produce. Was Karl's work for Chanel the same as his work prior to Chanel? No. Not saying that Blazy is on Karl's level (who is?), but what is he supposed to do? Become a fashion savant designer in the next 6 months? Why can't we have more realistic expectations. And then we have people who compare him to Virginie... ok why? Virginie should never have even been HIRED as the creative director. Clearly that was never her ambition! Being a studio director is a skill in and of itself. Blazy is not Virginie and has a totally different perspective. Why do we have to be weighed down by Karl's reinterpretation of Chanel? This is one of the reasons why the fashion industry is beyond pathetic and doomed in 2024. Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia.

 

[LadyJunon]

scrJust waiting for the Raf stans to make TikTok explainers for the septuagenarian Chanel ladies that will never watch them.

They've already started:

*screenshot from the comment section

 

[disco54]

No, I understand that very well. At some point you do have to let the past be in the past, Karl knew that too and "honored" it as well. Karl didn't design Chanel the way Coco left it when she died in 1971 and Blazy shouldn't be designing Chanel the way Karl left it in 2019 or the way Virginie designed it... at all. I don't give one sh*t about Blazy as a designer, to be honest, but the fact that so many people are gnashing their teeth and expecting the worst is utterly bizarre. I'm certainly not crying for a designer who gets criticism, but how do we realistically know what he's going to produce. Was Karl's work for Chanel the same as his work prior to Chanel? No. Not saying that Blazy is on Karl's level (who is?), but what is he supposed to do? Become a fashion savant designer in the next 6 months? Why can't we have more realistic expectations. And then we have people who compare him to Virginie... ok why? Virginie should never have even been HIRED as the creative director. Clearly that was never her ambition! Being a studio director is a skill in and of itself. Blazy is not Virginie and has a totally different perspective. Why do we have to be weighed down by Karl's reinterpretation of Chanel? This is one of the reasons why the fashion industry is beyond pathetic and doomed in 2024. Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia.

It is not doomed because of nostalgia lol, its doomed because of a lack of talented designers coupled with mega-corporations that stifle talent which results in the same kind of clothes being produced season after season without development.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^ but what Pieter and Blazy do are far from the atrocities of Mr Simons…

I don’t see any posterity coming from him. More like they distant themselves. They don’t even hire neither Rizzo or Vanderperre once. 😂

 

[tourbillions]

i am always so surprised when people mention the paycheck involved in Chanel... It is Chanel... just being at the helm of it is priceless, for people who has any passion left for their craft. Price is very fluid with creative people, sometimes a job can pay a ton for a small task and they would not feel like doing it at all and sometimes a job that pays almost nothing for a big task can be very fulfilling.

I guess putting numbers based on a position is a very north american thing.

 

[LadyJunon]

They've already started:
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*screenshot from the comment section

Re-reading this comment and I just noticed the "they are both from Raf's bosom." part. Now, all I can think off is a disturbing visual of Raf Simons breastfeeding Mulier and Blazy.

 

[alwaysademo]

^^ Maybe not if you spent more than a decade working in an industry where you get ripped off constantly by being too earnest with this mentality. Creatives are terrible with money, it's a known truth. Besides, a paycheck is way more than what you do with it.
I see few comparisons so far between Raf and Blazy to be remotely valid other than they came from the same group. But especially being in the same group, if one has any integrity one would try their best to make their own identifiable mark. The fact that all 3 held top positions in 3 major French houses right now is clear to me that Paris holds Belgium in some esteem when it comes to creativity.
I'm just sore I don't get my Hedi pour Chanel campaigns. But oh well... he did blink with *fallen chandelier*

 

[HigthaVandah]

Blazy's gonna get trashed in reviews no matter what he says in early interviews or what does in his first collections. But I suspect (and hope!) that once he's released a few collections and we're used to the idea that he, and not KL, is designing for Chanel, he'll do well.

Hedi

Hedi-ism is on its way back here in the U.S. It must make its way around the globe like the seasonal flu. If he wants to design and isn't already locked into a contract he's happy with, his negotiating power will only increase in the coming seasons.

 

[PDFSD]

No, I understand that very well. At some point you do have to let the past be in the past, Karl knew that too and "honored" it as well. Karl didn't design Chanel the way Coco left it when she died in 1971 and Blazy shouldn't be designing Chanel the way Karl left it in 2019 or the way Virginie designed it... at all. I don't give one sh*t about Blazy as a designer, to be honest, but the fact that so many people are gnashing their teeth and expecting the worst is utterly bizarre. I'm certainly not crying for a designer who gets criticism, but how do we realistically know what he's going to produce. Was Karl's work for Chanel the same as his work prior to Chanel? No. Not saying that Blazy is on Karl's level (who is?), but what is he supposed to do? Become a fashion savant designer in the next 6 months? Why can't we have more realistic expectations. And then we have people who compare him to Virginie... ok why? Virginie should never have even been HIRED as the creative director. Clearly that was never her ambition! Being a studio director is a skill in and of itself. Blazy is not Virginie and has a totally different perspective. Why do we have to be weighed down by Karl's reinterpretation of Chanel? This is one of the reasons why the fashion industry is beyond pathetic and doomed in 2024. Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia.

while i share many things you mention here, i feel it goes both ways or maybe better said many things can be true at the same time, as different point of views and ways to measure success and talent is connected to different realities as well and perceptions.

one should on a forum freely express doubts or concerns and making hypothesis or have expectations on a creative work yet to be produced even because that's why most of us are here to discuss and analyze and inlighten or simply most vent :-)

and based of Blazy´s potential work he could do at Chanel he was hired as well (maybe he did a project who knows), so its normal to have expectations or opinions of something yet to come. (it's also part of the fun)

but i seen this general push back on people having an opinion when its not pretty is like becoming a crime when it does not align with the general perceived feeling of because the cards are dealt this way means one must except and not be critical any more.

i understand why nostalgia is big but it always has been in fashion and art that new work is created with old work in mind , but i understand also the idea of embracing the now , yet for me it means also being critical if now the general body of works of these creatives are not progressing.

we all agree i am sure new does not mean better than the old or more advanced, speaking of Chanel we all know the story of how long it took them to learn some of the old techniques of braiding trims used on the famous Chanel suits that only this one lady that worked with coco herself before passing away was teaching the new teams and still they have not figured out all yet etc and we are going in 2025 now.

i understand many feel passionate about Chanel its part of pop culture so you will have people feeling all types of ways its all valid or invalid.