Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

[Snejana Onopka]

the bags look like freebies from sephora. the output so far did nothing to elevate the brand's image, it is resonating with the online younger audiences tho (i wonder if it will translate into sales).

i wish fashion ppl would let go of this obsession with jimmy neutron's mom type of hairdos. but perhaps these greasy little silly hairdos work well with the current output: flat, goofy, caricatural

 

[Demna]

 

[Caffeine]

Law & Order SVU?

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I feel luddite-ish saying it but visiting Paris and seeing how much France cares about the history of art and food etc etc makes Chanel look so bleak. A federally regulated discipline guys…

 

[couturefan]

I knew they were gonna dress Rosalia when Blazy commented on her ig account praising her new music.

 

[fenty]

what happened to fashion...?

 

[Avonlea]

The same thing that happened to cinema, music, television and literature. We live in an era of intellectual laziness and stupidity fuelled by social media. Now with AI it's only going to get worse. It just reflects the times we live in. I would like to see a renaissance, but looking at the younger generations, I don't have much hope.

 

[Lola701]

what happened to fashion...?

I was thinking about that after processing the state of TFS where literally every thread that is updated is about people having negative critics to offer (me included).
Are we simply getting old? Is there a generation gap? Is it simply a reflection of the time? Or are people simply too infused with nostalgia…
Maybe it’s all and above.

But I also think that we live in a era where fashion is not part of culture but has become culture with a capital C.

We live in a era where we are bombarded with images, bombarded with information, bombarded with products, bombarded with stuff. At the same time, culturally, everything is a reference of everything.
In cinema, everything is either a sequel or a remake. In music, there are formulas of artists that seems quite redundant. In Art, contemporary Art and the limits of abstraction are more and more diluted because the conversation is about the prices of the pieces.

And suddenly, the fashion industry, where all those creative industry meets seems totally devoid of purpose.

What do people want from fashion? What do people need from fashion? Are people expecting too much from fashion?

I think that the fact that every outfit worn by a celebrity of Blazy’s debut collection gets to be posted here is telling of our disfunctional relationship with fashion.

Fashion hit different at the time when people didn’t know much about it.

This is the evolution of life and fashion has to evolve. That doesn’t mean that we have to approve of everything.

But it’s never fair to compare a past that was so different.

And as a final point, I have never lived an era when people were totally in love with the fashion of the moment. I loved working in fashion and living through fashion in the 00’s early 10’s but there were already people comparing to fashion in the 90’s and 80’s. It was probably over-romanticized but so little documented that I was ok believing that fantasy.

 

[brandon J pierre]

I was thinking about that after processing the state of TFS where literally every thread that is updated is about people having negative critics to offer (me included).
Are we simply getting old? Is there a generation gap? Is it simply a reflection of the time? Or are people simply too infused with nostalgia…
Maybe it’s all and above.

But I also think that we live in a era where fashion is not part of culture but has become culture with a capital C.

We live in a era where we are bombarded with images, bombarded with information, bombarded with products, bombarded with stuff. At the same time, culturally, everything is a reference of everything.
In cinema, everything is either a sequel or a remake. In music, there are formulas of artists that seems quite redundant. In Art, contemporary Art and the limits of abstraction are more and more diluted because the conversation is about the prices of the pieces.

And suddenly, the fashion industry, where all those creative industry meets seems totally devoid of purpose.

What do people want from fashion? What do people need from fashion? Are people expecting too much from fashion?

I think that the fact that every outfit worn by a celebrity of Blazy’s debut collection gets to be posted here is telling of our disfunctional relationship with fashion.

Fashion hit different at the time when people didn’t know much about it.

This is the evolution of life and fashion has to evolve. That doesn’t mean that we have to approve of everything.

But it’s never fair to compare a past that was so different.

And as a final point, I have never lived an era when people were totally in love with the fashion of the moment. I loved working in fashion and living through fashion in the 00’s early 10’s but there were already people comparing to fashion in the 90’s and 80’s. It was probably over-romanticized but so little documented that I was ok believing that fantasy.

Wonderfully worded to much nostalgia to much comparing, also people are not shopping and fast fashion has come in to its own. Fashion is now like football. Growing up in miami, Florida in the 90s as a black man , no one was into fashion now they all want to no, but they have no interest in the real past and no interest in real creativity. It just for show. The biggest problem with fashion I find is conglomerates and celebrities.

But also, rather we like it or not, really good fashion is behind us just like really good movies are behind us.Just like really good music is behind us. Times has changed and Where they're going no one knows.