proseccotabis
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An interesting take for sure!I suspect he may have liked him. Karl loved French people and Blazy is still quite imo a typical French guy.
I think there’s a disconnect between the perception of Blazy’s work, the reality of his work, the perception of his personality and the reality of his personality.
He does comes across as someone likeable and I’m sure he will be liked by the premiere and the atelier. Those were important things for Karl.
As for fashion, I don’t know. Karl liked Phoebe at Celine, JWA at Loewe. Blazy is in that world and he worked for Celine. Should we assume that he would have loved his work? RAF was invited to Chanel shows. I remember I saw him at the Carroussel show but at that time he wasn’t the huge star he became later at JS. And it’s known around Paris that Karl had dinners with RAF.
But then, Karl was quite welcoming of designers and was known to sending flowers, organizing dinners or finding ways to get to know them.
But I remember Karl talking his hate for intellectual designers. I have always though that it was about designers having a public persona than a perception of an aesthetic. He loved CDG and Miuccia. They are perceived as intellectuals by a lot of people.
I am pretty certain that Karl would have loved Blazy as a person. as a designer and a creative director? not so much. I think if we disregard Matthieu s input at Celine and Margiela he would have found him very bland because of his current work at bottega . that's too intellectual, but in my eyes its a pseudo take on intellectualism because he needs to tick boxes in his job. having said that Blazy is under insane scrutiny already and he has such huge shoes to fill in such an iconic maison at Chanel, and i personally feel that no matter what he does in Chanel he will be eaten alive by all of us here on tfs and in media lol mdr