{"id":71266,"date":"2025-12-15T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71266\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:25:09","slug":"chanel-comes-back-to-nyc-via-the-c-train-for-the-metiers-dart-fashion-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71266\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanel comes back to NYC via the C train for the M\u00e9tiers d\u2019Art fashion show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthieu Blazy, a French-Belgian fashion designer<\/a>, took on the role as artistic creative director of Chanel in late 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Early in his career, Blazy started out with Maison Margiela, where he led the anonymous studio right after Margiela\u2019s departure. He also worked under British fashion designer Phoebe Philo at Celine and eventually moved up the fashion pyramid as design director of Calvin Klein\u2019s Women\u2019s Ready-to-Wear under Raf Simons.<\/p>\n

In 2021, he became the creative director for Bottega Veneta<\/a>, where he demonstrated his creative talent as a designer and revitalized the brand through expanding its product lines, producing critically acclaimed collections and creating leather trompe-l\u2019\u0153il signature pieces.<\/p>\n

Hosting the M\u00e9tiers d\u2019Art 2025 fashion show in an abandoned station between Bowery and the J\/Z line, in a scenery familiar to millions of New Yorkers, sent the message that Chanel is for everyone. Blazy\u2019s inspiration<\/a> for the collection was very character-driven from the diversity he found in everyday commuters of all social classes in an ordinary New York City subway station.<\/p>\n

Chanel typically hosts its fashion shows in grand, luxurious and iconic venues<\/a>. From the Grand Palais in Paris, where there would be complete theme transformations, to private islands in Dubai, Chanel never disappoints with not just giving a show of its latest designs but an artistic experience too. Seeing a NYC train station be the runway for a fashion show was nothing but unexpected as iconic ideas were brought to life.<\/p>\n

The abandoned Bowery station, typically used for filming, was transformed with fresh paint, steel benches and turnstiles that helped enhance<\/a> NYC\u2019s signature raw, tiled and metallic subway station.<\/p>\n

The train that was a part of the show was used by models, who would emerge from it to act out the everyday transit commute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strutting throughout the station, waiting against the post and feigning annoyance at their lateness, really demonstrated the transportation experience that inspired Blazy.<\/p>\n

The newly announced brand ambassadors for Chanel, A$AP Rocky and Margaret Qualley, attended the show along with celebrities like Kristen Stewart and Jon Bon Jovi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview with Women\u2019s Wear Daily<\/a> after the show, Qualley said, \u201cI\u2019ve been on the subway many times but I\u2019ve never seen it like this. It was so glamorous, so New York and gorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems to the fashion world that Chanel has entered a brand new iconic era with Blazy and his brilliance as its new artistic creative director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthieu Blazy, a French-Belgian fashion designer, took on the role as artistic creative director of Chanel in late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-71266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71266","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=71266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}