Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

[Lola701]

At first I though it was a vintage jacket…Mostly because at the show, it looked rather normal « for a stage outfit ».
It follows the codes of HipHop. Very 90’s though.

It’s funny but before starting the show, they showed the eyewear commercial. It was a bit odd… So I figured out that he was possibly going to wear Chanel.

 

[PDFSD]

alpha industries jacket the eternal north euro thorpe of rave and skinhead culture these belgians and demna´s cant get enough off

raf desgin my *ss lol its just remake of this every brand did a version of it at some point by now

 

[PDFSD]

dapper dan famous for bootleg fashion

 

[PDFSD]

idea can be cool for this rapper but i think supreme might have done cooler version in past i feel since its what they been doing for years rif of black street culture

.....i think lots of male rappers will want also more chanel now

 

[Grets]

JWA and the k-pop star dress and now MB with the rapper in a bomber. It's a race to the bottom for which brand can generate the most hype.

 

[Norden]

I think there is nothing more played out than a bomber jacket. Again this weird diffused launch. Chanel is not maintaining any prestige this way.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

I agree that this is not strong.
The fact that the shots are from the back, erasing in a way the identity of the wearer, means that the important thing here is the big double ce.
Going for logo in outerwear is lazy?
Yes.
At the same time, I don't give importance to such snippets and teasers.
They are sometimes misleading.
The real deal will be the October collection.

 

[PDFSD]

CHANEL debuts 'Chanel & Moi, Les Ateliers' in Shanghai at Plaza 66 Mall - second service workshop in China

(If you ever wonder where to bring your Chanel bomber to get fixed or altered post concert :-)

 

[brandon J pierre]

Chanel couture preview

 

[LadyJunon]

I really hope that isn't Blazy's. He's kind of our last hope after JWA womenswear previews.

 

[brandon J pierre]

More Chanel

I really hope that isn't Blazy's. He's kind of our last hope after JWA womenswear previews.

It's him because I've never seen karl Do a red dress at Chanel.

 

[Simera]

Wrinkled is a trend for couture?
I guess I can throw the iron away

 

[jeanclaude]

Looks like a discarded candy wrap, which has been forgotten for a long time inside the pocket of a jacket.

 

[couturefan]

It's vintage

 

[Kanzai]

More Chanel

It's him because I've never seen karl Do a red dress at Chanel.

He did. Karl is called “Chamelon” not for nothing.

 

[justpassingthrough]

BASED on vintage couture, there is a huge difference between those two pieces.

 

[Avonlea]

Based on vintage couture, executed with mood fabrics and sewing machine from lidl.

 

[Creative]

It looks very Karl (he did red as well, he even did a whole collection in red), but gone VERY wrong! The fabric choice is awful.

I didn’t see the Bomber preview that’s ridiculous! Brands thinking it’s cool to do bombers and dressing rapers. Gimme a rest. I respect him but wouldn’t be where I want Chanel to be tbh. If you play with rappers you risk becoming a cheap brand, same as Vuitton and Gucci. And Chanel is not cheap as a brand, even if it has many cheap looking things.

 

[Lola701]

It’s a reproduction of Vintage.
Chanel has been doing this a lot since the Karl Met Gala actually.

I wonder if the original wasn’t in shantung. Taffetas is maybe one of the most difficult fabric, with mohair, for someone to wear.
Maybe the original dress was in taffetas as it is very light.

Taffetas is very wrinkly and it’s the nature of the thing. Even more when the fabric is not mixed with synthetic fabrics. You can do a Polyester taffetas but the quality is not the same as Silk taffetas.

At the same time, in the 80’s, nobody cared about Redcarpet. People recognized Taffetas, the fact that it’s an expensive fabric and appreciated it nature irl.

More Chanel

It's him because I've never seen karl Do a red dress at Chanel.

Karl did a lot of red at Chanel! Red is a Chanel color. He edited his color palette for Chanel after 2000. That’s when he started to use more pastels.
He also stopped doing greens except I remember for Anna Mouglalis at some point.

Something like Animalier is very Chanel. She did a lot and furs. The last time Karl did animalier was probably in 2007.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

Not directly related to Ayo Edebiri, who looks shy and endearing, or to Mathieu Blazy, whose degree of involvement in this is to me still ambiguous, but the decadence of French Couture as an art is unfortunately very evident these days.
Jerry Hall looks imperial in that gown from 1986, but I thought: maybe it is just the angle of the picture.
No. I was looking at more pictures and in all of them you can appreciate that the froncé of the bustier has a sense and a purpose, that it even creates smoothly a volume on the side, with the help of the fabric, and thanks to all of that you have a strong silhouette, different textures, precious details.

This red gown from Venice looks flat, frumpy, amateurish and uninteresting.
Ditto for Jonathan's dress from yesterday: unflattering, clumsy, hurried, unfinished.
Dior and Chanel used to be the nec plus ultra doing this and now they seem student projects.

The problem, I imagine, is only partially related to the artistic directors.
Raf was also this type of artsy intellectual designer and look at the Sterling Ruby dresses from his first Dior show. You could find them uneasy on the eye (or plain ugly) but their construction was spectacular.
So to me the problem affects the ateliers themselves, with traditions and savoir-faire slowly getting lost.

The fact that Dior is outsourcing from India the embroideries for Haute-Couture level pieces is very eloquent of the lack of craftmanship in France.