Chanel Turns the Grand Palais Into a Dark Fairy Tale for Matthieu Blazy’s 2nd Couture Show
Blazy turned Chanel icons into a fairy tale collection, ending with a little black dress instead of the house’s traditional bridal finale.
- On Tuesday morning in Paris, designer Matthieu Blazy unveiled his latest Chanel couture collection inside the Grand Palais, transforming the venue into a surreal garden with life-sized vines and fauna.
- Blazy drew inspiration after discovering a book of fairy tales in Gabrielle Chanel's original apartment library, noting parallels between 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and her historic climb upward in fashion.
- Accessories took a bric-a-brac approach with metallic minaudières and transparent pumps embellished with gold-leaf and bean-shaped pearl heels. The runway featured frayed scarecrow-inspired looks and sheer tweed skirt suits with exposed raw edges.
- Breaking with tradition, Blazy bucked Chanel convention by placing the bride mid-runway rather than closing with her, instead giving the final word to a classic little black dress.
- Blazy explained the collection aims to capture "the adventure of the everyday," reflecting life's realities like picking up children or going to work, not just serving as a pretty dress on a runway.
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Chanel turns the Grand Palais into a dark fairy tale for Matthieu Blaz
PARIS (AP) — Inside the Grand Palais in Paris Tuesday, Chanel’s starry salon was swallowed by a garden gone wrong: giant beanstalks climbing to the ceiling and huge flowers blooming a little too brightly to be safe. Tilda Swinton , Michelle Yeoh and Catherine Deneuve were among the crowd, the kind the Parisian stalwart summons and few others can. The show looked enchanted and faintly poisoned at the same time, which turned out to be the point. T…
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Chanel turns the Grand Palais into a dark fairy tale for Matthieu Blazy’s 2nd couture show
PARIS (AP) — Inside the Grand Palais in Paris Tuesday, Chanel's starry salon was swallowed by a garden gone wrong: giant beanstalks climbing to the ceiling and huge flowers blooming a little too brightly to be safe.
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