Chanel Spring/Summer 2026: The house breaks free with Matthieu Blazy, with oversized shirts and feathered skirts that paint a bright future

At Paris Fashion Week, the phrase "house codes" reverberated across the runways. At Matthieu Blazy's Chanel debut, the fourth commandment was honored: you shall respect your father and your mother. Tweed was reinvented, transformed into sheer mesh outfits, and the hip-length waistline, in pursuit of the straight silhouette of the 1920s, was reimagined in knit dresses and wide-legged trousers below the navel. The suit jacket has changed its lapels: crafted in tweed, it is completed with a bomber jacket with structured shoulder pads. Oversized shirts, a homage to the Charvet shirts Coco used to wear, were paired with feather-studded skirts that created new blooms for the house's garden of prints and appliqués: the usual magnolias, now in appliqués that flattered the drape of fluid silk dresses, were joined by dahlias, in ruffles, earrings, and hats, pursuing a movement Blazy had already demonstrated during her time at Bottega Veneta. In her words, femininity and masculinity: "the ultimate paradox," embodied in the closing look, inspired by 17th-century Flemish still lifes