To the Moon and Back: Matthieu Blazy Sends Chanel Into Orbit

To the Moon and Back: Matthieu Blazy Sends Chanel Into Orbit

The most talked-about show of Paris Fashion Week just wrapped, and it was literally written in the stars.

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After months of fashion whispers, designer debuts, and the giant Chanel-sized question mark left after Virginie Viard’s exit, Matthieu Blazy finally walked into the spotlight and dropped a whole universe.

Monday night at the Grand Palais felt otherworldly. Chanel’s freshly restored home, glimmering from its five-hundred-million-dollar facelift, turned into a living galaxy. Saturn floated above the crowd. Planets hung midair. The runway shimmered half mirror, half night sky, like watching from both sides of the moon.

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Blazy has always had a thing for the cosmos. Fitting, since Coco herself adored everything celestial: the stars, the moon, the endless sky. And Blazy studied that language, then wrote it in his own tone.

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The clothes hit that sweet spot between nostalgia and now. Classic Chanel tweeds met something freer, sharper, more human. The kind of elegance that poses and moves.

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The front row was a constellation of cool. Pedro Pascal, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Sofia Coppola, Nicole Kidman.

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Simon Longland from Harrods called it a “masterclass.” The internet basically combusted. Blazy knows what women actually want to wear. Clothes that feel good, not just photograph well.

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That’s why this debut worked. The spectacle was huge, but the heart of it all was something real. Clothes that were wearable, modern, and joyfully alive. Chanel for a generation that still loves heritage but craves the thrill of what’s next.

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Fashion loves to talk about reinvention, but this wasn’t that. It was growth. The kind that takes you to outer space and somehow lands you right back home, a little changed, a little brighter.

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