Matthieu Blazy Finds His Wings at Chanel's Fall/Winter 2026 Show

For his sophomore ready-to-wear outing at Chanel, staged inside the Grand Palais on the final day of Paris Fashion Week, artistic director Matthieu Blazy built his Fall/Winter 2026 collection around a single line from Gabrielle Chanel: fashion as both caterpillar and butterfly.

The show opened to Lady Gaga's Just Dance, with models emerging from a polished floor beneath a set of towering, multi-coloured cranes evoking a construction site, before the collection itself moved from grounded, practical daywear into an increasingly ethereal, nocturnal register. Blazy loosened the house's most reliable instrument, the Chanel suit, stretching it into ribbed knits and bouclé threaded with lurex and even silicone, while the waistline dropped lower to echo the "Garçonne" era so central to Gabrielle Chanel's own 1920s designs.

Front row, Kylie Minogue and Teyana Taylor watched models including Stephanie Cavalli and Anne Vyalitsyna walk past in Blazy's fourth collection since his December 2024 appointment. Reaction on fashion forums ranged from calling it his best collection yet to more mixed responses over specific dresses, but the consensus among critics was that this was a designer settling firmly into his house's codes rather than fighting them.