{"id":59389,"date":"2025-12-03T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:01:21","slug":"matthieu-blazy-takes-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59389\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthieu Blazy Takes New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October, the fashion crowd stood to applaud Matthieu Blazy\u2019s Chanel debut<\/a>. And tonight, on a New York City subway platform, they stood clear of the closing doors. Blazy took the industry downtown to an abandoned station for his first M\u00e9tiers d\u2019art collection for the house. Still, the sight of ELLE cover stars Teyana Taylor<\/a>, Jessie Buckley<\/a>, and A$AP Rocky<\/a>, plus his Chanel-universe wife Margaret Qualley<\/a>; Tilda Swinton<\/a>; house ambassador Ayo Edebiri<\/a>; and more tightly lined up on those wooden benches presented its own head-scratcher for such a glamorous crowd.<\/p>\n

Active subway platform or not, NYC remains a poignant choice for Blazy\u2019s sophomore showing. While the city is neither the house\u2019s home base nor a dreamy European getaway, the brand possesses an intimate relationship with the Big Apple, from Gabrielle Chanel\u2019s first visit in 1931 en route to Hollywood to Karl Lagerfeld\u2019s final M\u00e9tiers d\u2019art collection, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018, just two months before his passing.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Chanel<\/p>\n

After all, grit\u2014and plenty of business sense\u2014is what took Gabrielle Chanel from simple countryside girl to seasoned couturier. True to the show\u2019s Canal Street\u2013adjacent location, Chanel herself embraced the grind and shrugged off the American replicas she saw of her work during her time here\u2014something that Janet Flanner noted in her New Yorker profile of the designer. Chanel lauded \u201ccopyists\u201d for their free \u201cpublicity,\u201d making her a contrarian against the prevailing standard of French refinement. There\u2019s a little bit of that glib nature in the \u201cI <3 New York\u201d sequined T-shirt that walked the runway, which was also reminiscent of Lagerfeld\u2019s infamous graffiti from the spring\/summer 2014 collection. <\/p>\n

Blazy, too, is a bit of a chameleon\u2014his subtlety is ironically a signature, and yet it still translates wherever he goes. He evidently picked up on the New York attitude during his three-year stint in the city working under Raf Simons at Calvin Klein. Alex Consani sauntered down the platform in an androgynous pinstripe suit that almost yelled \u201cHey toots!\u201d at you. Her swagger was invented by Chanel, canonized by Lagerfeld, and is now heralded by Blazy. <\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Chanel<\/p>\n

The animal prints were delectable, especially a psychedelic giraffe-like skirt suit. Cue Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada: \u201cOh I get it, I get it, I get it. The piece is called \u2018Urban Jungle,\u2019 right?\u201d In reality, it was a clear nod to Chanel\u2019s leopard coats, but it also helps that the print is currently having a major metropolitan renaissance. <\/p>\n

Many of Blazy\u2019s women-in-transit felt modern and familiar\u2014coats slung over shoulder bags or the forearm, a sweater tied around the waist, a clear raincoat that harked back to the iconic see-through rain boots from Lagerfeld. Blazy may be recreating popular styling habits and applying them to deep-cut archive silhouettes, but he is undoubtedly working to elevate the way we think about modern dressing. However, most importantly, neither the feathered jacket and red sequin dress nor the opening camel quarter-zip and light-wash jeans (Blazy just couldn\u2019t resist!) felt out of place on that platform. And they shouldn\u2019t\u2014that\u2019s New York, baby. <\/p>\n

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Alexandra Hildreth is the Fashion News Editor at ELLE. She is fascinated by style trends, industry news, shake-ups, and The Real Housewives. Previously, she attended the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Following graduation, she moved back to New York City and worked as a freelance journalist and producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In October, the fashion crowd stood to applaud Matthieu Blazy\u2019s Chanel debut. And tonight, on a New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31894,8861,26709,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-59389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2026-metiers-d","9":"tag-chanel","10":"tag-matthieu-blazy","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}