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“The Lightest Couture Show Ever”: First Reactions to Matthieu Blazy’s Couture Debut at Chanel | Vogue

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Matthieu Blazy’s first couture collection took Chanel in a lighter, softer direction. Here’s what clients and guests had to say about it.

January 27, 2026 Matthieu Blazy’s highly anticipated couture debut at Chanel delivered. Held in the historic Grand Palais against the backdrop of a poetic set filled with giant pink and red mushrooms, the couture show built on the fluidity established in his debut ready-to-wear collection. The show opened with a transparent silk mousseline suit in a tender color palette of nudes and pinks. Then, “the women at the center of the collection begin to transform into birds”, according to the show notes: “raven black looks, to colored plumage evoked in embroidery, layering, pleating and weaving,…

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