Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

[Salvatore]

some here below as there is to many looks part 1 enjoy:
grandmother Lingerie
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ostrich
egg
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twist and turn crumple dresses
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lazy office lesbian
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check cult
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give me nothing in two pieces (divorce dressing)
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i went to africa once and i love the market (market bags in Ghana have same weave and color)
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mens military underwear layer /sexy secretary skirt obsession
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i love to make big crafty flowers in nickelodeon/sponge bob colors on sheer dresses
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i am Lazy Blazy this is my home work for Chanel!

This is why you were missed ! Homework & humour in one post. ❤️

 

[PDFSD]

one dress all it takes (Dua Lipa)

going around in circles


I have one good idea! ....wanna see it ?

from Celine to Bottega all the way to Chanel ..you gotta be choker-ing me lol


this shows the evolution of illusion of ideas in 2025 ..........but there are many more

so much more like: clothing label on the outside of rtw items from raf to Bottega to Chanel Charvet,like raf he plays with the shirt all the time bigger smaller in leather layered 3x etc etc .....

of course as other people shown the mop hats the pompons everywhere, the double triple layer skirts , the graphic late 80´s early 90´s interior prints , cheerleader fraying edges on everything, illusion print of denim or tweed or check , the side split skirt , odd waist positions in all BV shows now we see in Chanel as well,


i cant see it anymore its polluting my mind lol

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

Thanks for all the comparisons PDFSD !
Thanks to them, I think I appreciate a little bit more Mathieu's main collection 🤭

Before, I thought he had no personal "style", but now I can see he is chanel-izing the shapes and techniques he loves.
He is going to cover a dress with his flower-appliqués, but the dress is going to be the one Claudia wore in SS95. To me, that kind of middle point at legacy houses is ok.

I noticed in the close-ups a couple of details that made me think of Jacquemus: the wheat theme, in the embroideries and necklaces: it is very South of France. Also the playfulness and naiveté of the eggs (in the clutches) and the tiny chicks (in the earrings).

The pre-coll, on the other hand, was a huge letdown and so far the red carpet has been very underwhelming. The best you can say about these women is that they don't look like clowns, but we've come to expect from Chanel much more than simple correctness.

I guess I will have to wait for the Haute Couture to decide if I am convinced by Mathieu's Chanel.

 

[Alquimista]

some here below as there is to many looks part 1 enjoy:
grandmother Lingerie
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ostrich
egg
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twist and turn crumple dresses
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lazy office lesbian
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check cult
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give me nothing in two pieces (divorce dressing)
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i went to africa once and i love the market (market bags in Ghana have same weave and color)
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mens military underwear layer /sexy secretary skirt obsession
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i love to make big crafty flowers in nickelodeon/sponge bob colors on sheer dresses
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i am Lazy Blazy this is my home work for Chanel!

What are you trying to express here?

Sometimes some of you make comparisons, and it's not just you, that makes me feel like Miranda in the belt scene.

We can do better.

 

[Lola701]

If someone tells me that Matthieu owes money to PDFSD, I would totally believe him…
Those next 5 years are going to be hard for you lol. You got to keep your energy. He got 10 collections a year. You will have plenty of occasion to prove your point lol.

If we go back to his body of work at CK, Céline, BV under DL and Margiela, you’ll have enough material for the comparison for the next 5 years to come.

 

[Alquimista]

If we go back to his body of work at CK, Céline, BV under DL and Margiela, you’ll have enough material for the comparison for the next 5 years to come.

And what is even the point of it? Besides the one liners? The side by side photos have that conspiracy theory aesthetic where someone wants to show something obvious as if it's some great mystery. Designer used x technique in different garments? At different houses? My jaw is on the floor. Eh...no.

Blazy was hired because of his past works. Not despite of it. They want him to take all that and apply it to the world of Chanel. You don't hire Galliano and tell him to not make bias cut dresses.

 

[jeanclaude]

I noticed in the close-ups a couple of details that made me think of Jacquemus: the wheat theme, in the embroideries and necklaces: it is very South of France.

That comes from the only picture Mademoiselle had in her apartment: "Wheat ear" by Salvador Dalí.

But yes, the way Blazy used the reference is very Jacquemus (aka. cheap).

selectionsarts.com

 

[PDFSD]

What are you trying to express here?

Sometimes some of you make comparisons, and it's not just you, that makes me feel like Miranda in the belt scene.

We can do better.

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What are you trying to express here? ask Blazy i did not make those things.

It's not just you that channel your Miranda when your lost for words, its the space to do it live out you fantasy bro! (that movie is incredibly cheap but i understand it gave many people a personality to express themselves )

Like i said i am having a closer look at lazy blazy work and i notice the recurring themes ( you should be happy to see the links in his work ) ...that's all! love it with all your body and mind.

Fashion is Visual before and foremost then comes the feelings and words, but if you can't see it you cant talk or feel anything about it!!!!!

I wanted to see what his work is about so you can do better with words regarding his work.
:-)

 

[PDFSD]

If someone tells me that Matthieu owes money to PDFSD, I would totally believe him…
Those next 5 years are going to be hard for you lol. You got to keep your energy. He got 10 collections a year. You will have plenty of occasion to prove your point lol.

If we go back to his body of work at CK, Céline, BV under DL and Margiela, you’ll have enough material for the comparison for the next 5 years to come.

Hehe maybe he already does ....thanks to his team :-) but i don't get into this.

Oh no i got over NG at LV doing ugly pointless empty design for design i will be fine ...today i don't even finish a LV show video in full on youtube.
after Karl it was already less fun watching Chanel so i have years of training already :-) and i have time and financial freedom to do things i like outside of fashion as it became me hobby on here to improve my writing skills in order to write to my lawyers and bank :-)

Yes it was overwhelming to see the old collections and see how much mix of repetitive ideas he did and easy to see what keeps showing up in relationship to his Chanel.
As so many say its so much more real Chanel, the point was that he was doing these shapes and layers and formless stuff already at BV.

That's fine as Galliano was doing bias cut before his Dior years but you don't hear anyone say that's so real Dior was the point.

Blazy came with a lot of Blazy-ism´s at Chanel while the whole point was for Chanel to be Chanel but new i see just Chanel decorated on top of Blazy-ism´s.

I think Blazy will have it very hard to keep the energy and attention when all Chanel collections will start to look like the same shapeless decorated blobs.

I really want to see how the clients are going to swipe the there cards for his Chanel, online opinions is almost a island on its own any ways and i prefer the reality at store level to balance the high brow efforts of the creative directorship of a brand.
I highly doubt they will get enough new clients to compensate what old clients liked about Chanel.

they will blame it on China´s weak spending economie lol

 

[Beun]

Kindly describe it because i can't see anyone explain in in a clear way regarding him, it's always loose words like: modern and i like it , its finally not VV or KL , its thing i want to wear /woman want to wear ....etc feedback

and nor can he himself or does he explain his style or vision when ever i read his interviews but happy to learn more.

Well, you don't need me to describe it, you did it very well yourself: "grandma lingerie" and the likes... What I see here is a designer streamlining and refining his aesthetic, like all of them do. Human capacity for reinvention is unfortunately not unlimited, creativity tends to gravitate towards patterns, which in fashion obviously translates into specific silhouettes, accessories, fabrics, colour schemes... I don't think that it's lazy, I think that it's only natural, and I don't see why Blazy should be castigated for not reinventing himself anymore than his peers do. You obviously don't like his work, which is perfectly legitimate, but that doesn't make him more "lazy" than any other CD. These are just two different layers of appreciation, his aesthetic/vision on the one hand, and the efforts he puts in his work on the other.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

I personally love this type of exercise so I have enjoyed a lot all this pannels by PDFSD.
Remember the cargos from Jonathan's first Dior? I loved them even more when juxtaposed to the Delft dress.
It is always interesting to understand where things are coming from.

To be honest, I think Lola could do the same comparisons with classic Chanel looks, and that was the success of the show: to blend smoothly in a modern way the codes of the house with Matthieu's touch.

The only one of the main silhouettes that I found unconvincing was the Charvet shirts or loose tops with voluminous long skirts. They give unblended Bottega.

 

[PDFSD]

And what is even the point of it? Besides the one liners? The side by side photos have that conspiracy theory aesthetic where someone wants to show something obvious as if it's some great mystery. Designer used x technique in different garments? At different houses? My jaw is on the floor. Eh...no.

Blazy was hired because of his past works. Not despite of it. They want him to take all that and apply it to the world of Chanel. You don't hire Galliano and tell him to not make bias cut dresses.

Why yo so mad bro/sis we just looking at frayed dresses with wheat straw pom pom flowers.

It's obvious they saw modernity in Blazy (Phoebe Philo´s) work nobody denies this and its what we all said what we will expect of his new Chanel to be modern.

There is no Mystery with Blazy that we already established.

Mine was lol ....My jaw was on the floor when i went back to see how many ugly stuff he did.
i am sure he overwhelmed chanel ceo´s with thousand of crafty ways to do pompons (can use your word Technique here?) and checks Techniques , and they were so drunk on his work that they decided it must be him.

i dont understand why your not happy to see Blazy have a design language so strong it even overrides coco chanel codes.
lol

 

[FashionPower]

The point is simple after all: why was Alessandro Michele accused of being a one trick pony for not adapting his vision and skills to Valentino with his underwhelming debut, while Blazy got away by releasing a BV best off collection with CC logo bags instead of intrecciato Andiamo? And let's not add the old MGC Dior rant "yeah but it looks like her Valentino, she's bad because she can only do A-line tulle dresses".
Fashion double standards are what really makes me despise this business.

 

[PDFSD]

Well, you don't need me to describe it, you did it very well yourself: "grandma lingerie" and the likes... What I see here is a designer streamlining and refining his aesthetic, like all of them do. Human capacity for reinvention is unfortunately not unlimited, creativity tends to gravitate towards patterns, which in fashion obviously translates into specific silhouettes, accessories, fabrics, colour schemes... I don't think that it's lazy, I think that it's only natural, and I don't see why Blazy should be castigated for not reinventing himself anymore than his peers do. You obviously don't like his work, which is perfectly legitimate, but that doesn't make him more "lazy" than any other CD. These are just two different layers of appreciation, his aesthetic/vision on the one hand, and the efforts he puts in his work on the other.

"grandma lingerie" does not encapsulated Blazy´s work even me as a critic of his work knows this but nice try :-)

Sure there are many more on my list that are lazy but they are not at Chanel with the mandate to modernize it

I think the Blazystans are just a Lazy as him when it comes to discussing or explaining his style laguenge lol.

Even my friends that liked it at BV could not tell me... its ok he is confusing as he does so many things i get it.

Aesthetic/vision is too much effects without a manifesto he is a good nr 2 that has a passion for craft and this is blinding to a world that care only for dopamine hits on their screens.

i expected him to be more sharp and mature at Chanel knowing what Chanel was and is and i find him resulting to his most weak indulging parts of his work lazy at Chanel that has so much in archive to give.

the construction even when its over should not be what he did it looks sloppy lots of fit and it was one of the big things most people complain about VV at chanel the frumpy fit and proportions here is just with a BVPhoebe sauce on top of it.

 

[Kanzai]

Say what you want about Haider but he has a talent for making everything looks mature and expensive. I think a designer who has survived through the 2000s would be much better than a young generation designer like Blazy. Karl did say that he wanted Haider to be his successor at Chanel.

 

[Creative]

OMG this thread becoming Sabato de Sarno 2.0 is all I needed on the Internet 😅

PDF was soooo missed and super needed here!

I was just wondering which photographer he will choose for his first campaign. He should stick to Bailey probably. Maybe he wants to be groundbreaking and tries to discover a new one… which would be ok for me too.

 

[Lola701]

I personally love this type of exercise so I have enjoyed a lot all this pannels by PDFSD.
Remember the cargos from Jonathan's first Dior? I loved them even more when juxtaposed to the Delft dress.
It is always interesting to understand where things are coming from.

To be honest, I think Lola could do the same comparisons with classic Chanel looks, and that was the success of the show: to blend smoothly in a modern way the codes of the house with Matthieu's touch.

The only one of the main silhouettes that I found unconvincing was the Charvet shirts or loose tops with voluminous long skirts. They give unblended Bottega.

I don’t even have to do it.
I don’t have to convince myself that I like someone’s work. I don’t even mind standing alone in the idea of understanding his work.

Karl said it best: his work was to make believe.

And this is believable.

And again, as we can’t erase history, he was helped by Karl. Ultimately, with it codes, the Chanel style is a bit bourgeois. What a designer adds to it is a certain twist. But Karl took the aesthetic elements of that style to play with it a l’infini.

Chanel was never sexy, Karl at some point made it very sexy. At some point he made it edgy on the verge of pretention…etc. So he opened the possibilities.

This looks like Chanel. Chanel by Matthieu Blazy. Actually some stuff reminds me both of Gabrielle and of Karl. Some colors are very spring 2004. And a lot of things are also Matthieu.

But because I like his aesthetic, I don’t have to force myself to enjoy it.
I can’t wait for it to hit the stores and to buy it. I’m lucky that Chanel is that expensive because the more I’m forced to discuss and watch it, the more pieces I want to add to my wishlist.

The point is simple after all: why was Alessandro Michele accused of being a one trick pony for not adapting his vision and skills to Valentino with his underwhelming debut, while Blazy got away by releasing a BV best off collection with CC logo bags instead of intrecciato Andiamo? And let's not add the old MGC Dior rant "yeah but it looks like her Valentino, she's bad because she can only do A-line tulle dresses".
Fashion double standards are what really makes me despise this business.

Maybe because it wasn’t a question of design but indeed of vision.
And his last collection for Valentino was the rightful illustration of the said conversation. This is not even a double standard case.

Valentino was never about costumes. So if you go dig into the archives to style things in a constumey way, it won’t look like Valentino. No matter how you try it.

The moment Alessandro managed to get rid of all his gimmicks, it was solely about the clothes and the women, which is in fact reflective of Valentino.

 

[yslforever]

What are you trying to express here?

We are unsure of Mathieu Blazy's range and capacity to evolve, he has been lead CD for a major house barely 3 years before landing the big 10-collections-a-year job. Good for him.

We have seen Jonathan, Raf, Phoebe, Hedi, Riccardo, Marc, etc for decades at their own houses or other major houses.

Imho, that's a very legitimate concern on how he could sustain 10 collections and renew himself to last ...

 

[psychopsist]

Undeniably, there is an overlap between MB’s debut Chanel show and the aesthetic of his few years at BV. But, I do see influence & likeness from Chanel shows before him too, including things that may seem “not Chanel.” Spring 2004 and 2015 seem like major influences. Not trying to prove anything with this, just sharing what I’ve been looking at. If anyone has thoughts, I’d love to hear!

Blazy hats // Spring 2015 Couture


Fall 2016 RTW // Blazy look #28



Fall 2010 Couture // Blazy look #52


Spring+Fall 2021 Couture // Blazy look #20


Spring 2004 Couture // Blazy look #56


Spring 2004 Couture // Blazy look #71


Spring 2004 Couture // Blazy’s look #33


Spring 2011 & Spring 2015 Couture //
Awar’s Finale look

 

[Grets]

Also his blasé style is Ugly As F