Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Chanel

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Good point, the styling here adds contrast, but for the SS26 show, it played straight into a trope. I did love Blazy's debut (currently listening to the soundtrack in the background), but I can agree that it does feel too high-brow and conceptual for the Chanel.

It's on Tuesday. There doesn't seem to be any teasers yet, but I'm excited for see how show n'2 goes. I see it going either way, either Chanel will encourage him to pander to the clientele a bit more or they will brute force their way to an "New Chanel" in hopes that the clientele eventually yields to the new look (which they probably will, if it goes on for long enough).

I don't mind he goes conceptual and modern etc because original Chanel can be that as she was doing modern things for her time etc sure.

My issue is the lazy reliance of his styling tricks that actually look old and the overtly Phoebe go to tricks in design and overall style still to prevalent and lack of good cuts that are cool but also flattering.

I don't think clientele will mold into what blazy wants if he does not adapt to a reality of many woman bodies and wanting to wear things that don't make their shoulder wider or hips bigger or triple waist layers etc its just not going to happen on less some social norm of beauty changes.

Chanel is so big because they fit into many womens people's lives that are not into experimenting with unflattering tricky styling tricks.
Every brand that sells allot has a mediocre fit and taste for the selling collections, the mass audience taste is pop.
blazy is too overworked in craft or styling or does very flat things .....when you buy Chanel you don't want to be confused that its new Celine.

Its a club that welcomes like minded in, but not to change the rules so everyone can join it i feel.
I totally get to make something modern you have disrespect it as well, but it's an artform of disrespect i don't know Blazy knows yet at Chanel.

 

[alwaysademo]

she is wearing vintage Dior JG in Shanghai lol
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My bad She wore 3-4 looks and I took a screenshot of this one. The others were all Chanel

 

[Kanzai]

Ehhhh, I don’t think Matthieu is as “conceptual” as, say Demna for example. His crafts and techniques might be better than the latter but “conceptual”, hell not. His fashion is just performative quirky and they don’t make me question anything.

 

[PDFSD]

Ehhhh, I don’t think Matthieu is as “conceptual” as, say Demna for example. His crafts and techniques might be better than the latter but “conceptual”, hell not. His fashion is just performative quirky and they don’t make me question anything.

conceptuel as in light not hard core even phoebe prada etc is also concept .....which is a mental idea of something
relating to or based on mental concepts."philosophy deals with conceptual difficulties"

modernity conceptual intelectual all have degrees in execution ..like the concept of his show was Chanel universe and that its everywhere not just paris bla bla

 

[TurkicMongol]

Late to the party but I’ll say that I think it’s okay to simply acknowledge that (in your opinion) a figure past or present had values and morals different than your own and this doesn’t need to be met with so much defensiveness.

“CEOs today” and “there’s other people to hate” are bad defenses anyway. This whole forum is generally very critical of ‘the suits’ and this thread is about the current CD of Chanel… not about everything that’s wrong with the world. Lighten up.

Come on, Coco just wanted her business back at that time if I really remember well since I am not her biggest fan. To defend her or not, what sins she did at her time was mild compared to the atrocities that global elites did in the past two years. And from what I have read here, it is inevitably for people to compare the founder with the new one especially when most people don't like the work of the current CD. Whatever the hatred toward Coco as a person cannot deviate from the fact her being a revolutionary designer that Matt will never be. If people would bring up the so-called "horrible" founder, it is simply because the new CD really sucks.