Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

[PDFSD]

The kind of reassurance I need to hear from time to time to believe there are still people out there who love fashion but want/need it to integrate it into a grounded everyday reality. ❤️

exactly (also not popular idea, because people love to escape without returning to solve the problems, its like we love to catfish ourselves )

if as a creative you can't make reality better via your products or work why bother .........stay stuck in daydreams ?

ideas and dreams are there to make reality better by applying them to thinking process into actual solutions to be used and loved.

to this belongs also quality both in idea and making , if not why make it ?
why i never got the idea to randomly make stuff for hype or zara pieces that got thrown out a few month after.

 

[alwaysademo]

fair. People who spend their own money vs. the people who spend other people's money.

I couldn't edit my prior post so let me continue here:

I wouldn't edit a thing. my fave comment ever on this thread

 

[Lola701]

Culture is also changing. Now that you can get everything delivered practical clothes arent really needed. You can wear a frilly coat and heels for casual bc instacart does your shopping, net a porter drops your shopping off. All you have to do is walk around... This new freedom of lifestyle informs this new Chanel that has a far more carefree vibe.

Nobody is taking their Birkin to the grocer - as used to be cool in the 00s - now we have Diamond instacart shoppers getting paid $80 tips. now you can wear your cute look with no sneakers - no concern for practical - and go to an art gallery instead of foraging.

Yes…What you are describing only works for people who lives a particular lifestyle.
It’s not so much a question of money and access but of lifestyle.

Practical clothes are always needed. That’s what people buys and that’s why people buy pieces instead of looks nowadays. Clients have a real sense of discernment.

Practicality is such a fourre-tout word because it means different things in different context and I do not think the lives of actives women are that linear.

From the moment I started to work in fashion as a teenager, started to have access to designer clothes (while I had no business having access to), I was always in tune with the idea that clothes and accessories that I wear were meant to be worn in my everyday life. It’s something that I have never lost and that has always informed my choices.

The photography you may have of a woman at a particular moment may not be representative of her day to day style choices.

Lifestyle, etiquette, environment. A lot of things may influence people. Practicality may mean different things to people but I still think it’s at the core of what women wants.

But maybe your POV is solely based to what you are seeing around you.

 

[Kanzai]

I couldn't edit my prior post so let me continue here:
The people who have this particular lifestyle is a very privileged group, and mostly likely trust fund kids.

They are the kids whose rent is guaranteed/paid by their rich parents living in Florida, while spending $20 on coffee daily and uber-ing everywhere. They spend $1,000 on a sabrina carpenter concert ticket while complaining about the unaffordable city. They spend money made by their parents in a capitalist country but vote for a socialist who wants to tax the rich more (doesn't matter, their parents are in FL). It's not the kids' fault. Their parents just forgot to parent. (This is Gen Y.)
The brands need to harvest this generation pronto, because gen Z and alpha are swinging back to more traditional ethics and aesthetics. Their future boyfriends/husbands might have even grown up listening to Charlie Kirk. Woke Chanel won't do.

Your comment is definitely contained Caffeine.
Aha, I wonder if American socialists actually have any basic understanding of dialectical materialism, materialist dialectics, or historical materialism. If the radical leftist in the US is considered “socialist”, then real Marxists would basically be the godfathers of the radical left, lol. American’s terms r so goofy.

 

[marines]

 

[PDFSD]

uniqlo should really cash in on this new chanel knits era because honestly it's the same thing and i am being positive here

 

[yslforever]

Speechless.
Karl would have roasted that thing a hundred times in 6 languages.

 

[Lola701]

That I’m not a fan…
I don’t mind them styling Chanel basics but a whole look of basics with that hairstyle is a bit ridiculous. She looks like she is in character.

 

[tricotineacetat]

I expect a product like that from a house like Pringle of Scotland - Not the one of 10+ years ago when they were trying to ramp up their classics to become a real fashion brand, but the sad place they are in right now.

The disconnect between the runway and this commercial collection is extremely irritating. The lack of cohesion makes you wonder just what exactly from Blazy's products they are going to cash on - Good luck trying to sell this basic knitwear, I doubt it will become a best seller.

 

[Lola701]

I expect a product like that from a house like Pringle of Scotland - Not the one of 10+ years ago when they were trying to ramp up their classics to become a real fashion brand, but the sad place they are in right now.

The disconnect between the runway and this commercial collection is extremely irritating. The lack of cohesion makes you wonder just what exactly from Blazy's products they are going to cash on - Good luck trying to sell this basic knitwear, I doubt it will become a best seller.

In reality, I expect this kind of product from every fashion house. Buying a basic cashmere set from anyone.

The problem here lies in wanting to push it as a fashion statement.

It’s like brands selling white tshirts. The facts that it exists in stores doesn’t hurt the cohesion of a brand. But if you put a celebrity in a white tshirt and jeans on the Redcarpet, it doesn’t send the right message.

This cashmere set can exists in the stores, folded perfectly. We don’t need that on the RC.

 

[jeanclaude]

A cheap-looking wrinkled pyjama (with a CC logo embroidered, so everybody knows it´s Chanel and therefore expensive) for Kristen; and then a basic knit math teacher look for Keira...Blazy, are you drunk on Nº5???

 

[PDFSD]

In reality, I expect this kind of product from every fashion house. Buying a basic cashmere set from anyone.

The problem here lies in wanting to push it as a fashion statement.

It’s like brands selling white tshirts. The facts that it exists in stores doesn’t hurt the cohesion of a brand. But if you put a celebrity in a white tshirt and jeans on the Redcarpet, it doesn’t send the right message.

This cashmere set can exists in the stores, folded perfectly. We don’t need that on the RC.

Wait a minute lol......but they photographed it in the look so its promoted as a look we saw other looks from this act 1 26P on the show guests /ambassadors so we knew what the level of basicness it was since the show and the leaked pics after.

I showed BV rtw looks from his ecom as an example of how dull and badly proportioned his stuff actually is as well ...that's the problem with random ideas dropped in the collections and no structure to the build of the collections on solid ideas is one of many issues.

This is who he is his Chanel looks in BV show where also awful shape or structureless blobs his dowdy randomness disguise as multiple choice answers to modernity is a farce.

Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 Act1 (26P​

the crumples suits look brada did way better years ago with more precision and conviction that this ss 25 bv show looks still not sold out on e com

 

[Grets]

So we have what 2 years of this?

 

[Lola701]

Wait a minute lol......but they photographed it in the look so its promoted as a look we saw other looks from this act 1 26P on the show guests /ambassadors so we knew what the level of basicness it was since the show and the leaked pics after.

I showed BV rtw looks from his ecom as an example of how dull and badly proportioned his stuff actually is as well ...that's the problem with random ideas dropped in the collections and no structure to the build of the collections on solid ideas is one of many issues.

This is who he is his Chanel looks in BV show where also awful shape or structureless blobs his dowdy randomness disguise as multiple choice answers to modernity is a farce.

Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 Act1 (26P​

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I prefer the styling on the lookbook though.
If you are wearing basics, make it a look.

Me not liking her look so far doesn’t make me hate his tenure yet lol.
I can’t even call what he has done a tenure so far…

 

[PDFSD]

I prefer the styling on the lookbook though.
If you are wearing basics, make it a look.

Me not liking her look so far doesn’t make me hate his tenure yet lol.
I can’t even call what he has done a tenure so far…

That's like saying i like pine trees only when they have christmas decorations on it :-)

It was one of my early comments on him as well that once you remove the show styling and tricks you can see the quality of the pieces are not great and its frumpy.

BV was enough for me to know not to expect greatness yet :-)

 

[Caffeine]

Your comment is definitely contained Caffeine.
Aha, I wonder if American socialists actually have any basic understanding of dialectical materialism, materialist dialectics, or historical materialism. If the radical leftist in the US is considered “socialist”, then real Marxists would basically be the godfathers of the radical left, lol. American’s terms r so goofy.

The Marxists are. They came to US higher education institutions in the 50s and 60s. President Eisenhower, then the head of Columbia University, disagreed with them, but supported their existence because it's their First Amendment Right. They thrived. Now, Harvard would rather cut STEM phds than gender studies phds. The priorities are set. Then we get more socialist graduates who then vote socialists in power.

Historically, the marxists/socialists tended to start a revolution. Then when everything is destroyed, they get power. Then, they have access to the best things.
The Russian oligarchs were largely socialists at some point in history. Being good socialists gave them power and access. Then when things swing back, they got rich.
Mao's people also had access to the finest Mercedes, watches, and wine.
kim jong un the same.

It's never really about fairness but all about power, and ultimately, access to "things".

 

[Caffeine]

Wait a minute lol......but they photographed it in the look so its promoted as a look we saw other looks from this act 1 26P on the show guests /ambassadors so we knew what the level of basicness it was since the show and the leaked pics after.

I showed BV rtw looks from his ecom as an example of how dull and badly proportioned his stuff actually is as well ...that's the problem with random ideas dropped in the collections and no structure to the build of the collections on solid ideas is one of many issues.

This is who he is his Chanel looks in BV show where also awful shape or structureless blobs his dowdy randomness disguise as multiple choice answers to modernity is a farce.

Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 Act1 (26P​

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the crumples suits look brada did way better years ago with more precision and conviction that this ss 25 bv show looks still not sold out on e com
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I love how you named the file "ugly stuff.jpg"
But the knits at least had better proportion, no?

 

[Grets]

Chanel may not have their customers on their side but they at least have the media

 

[PDFSD]

I love how you named the file "ugly stuff.jpg"
But the knits at least had better proportion, no?

Slightly but its the overall pretense/and pro voices versus actual outcome of his items he designs.
That discrepancy is what makes me be like wait a minute it's not the reality it's not the truth !!

 

[PDFSD]

Chanel may not have their customers on their side but they at least have the media

thank you for this will listen to it now :-) i am sure it will be comical