PARIS (AP) \u2014 Chanel<\/a> ‘s Matthieu Blazy is still building.<\/p>\n Six months into his tenure at the Parisian stalwart, the designer staged his second ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week<\/a> Monday, where brightly colored cranes rose from a holographic floor \u2014 a deliberate signal that the construction is ongoing.<\/p>\n For Parisians who have spent years staring at the real thing above Notre-Dame cathedral, the set was perhaps less dreamy than intended.<\/p>\n The audience inside the Grand Palais suggested the foundations are solid: Margot Robbie, Oprah<\/a>, Jennie, Kylie Minogue<\/a>, Lily-Rose Depp, Teyana Taylor and Olivia Dean all turned up to watch the next floor go on.<\/p>\n Blazy took his cue from a quote from Gabrielle \u201cCoco\u201d Chanel: \u201cWe need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly.\u201d<\/p>\n The collection was structured around that tension \u2014 plain against spectacular, function against fantasy \u2014 with a discipline his sprawling debut last October sometimes lacked.<\/p>\n The opening looks were austere by design.<\/p>\n Black knit zip-ups, tweed blousons and boxy overshirts arrived with little more than four gold buttons to signal they belonged to Chanel.<\/p>\n In the vast runway space, they could read as underwhelming.<\/p>\n But Blazy\u2019s point was architectural: the suit, he said, is \u201cthe first brick\u201d \u2014 and everything else rises from it.<\/p>\n That logic tracks to the founder.<\/p>\n In her apartment on Rue Cambon, a wall is covered in gauze painted gold \u2014 something poor made precious.<\/p>\n Chanel built a house on that idea, borrowing from everyday dress and elevating it.<\/p>\n Blazy is doing the same with her codes, stripping the suit to a knit shirt jacket or pressed-tweed blouson before rebuilding it in silicone-woven fabric and metallic mesh.<\/p>\n The collection\u2019s most provocative move was its silhouette.<\/p>\n Blazy pulled waistlines dramatically low \u2014 belts slung to mid-thigh, pleated skirts starting where blazers ended.<\/p>\n The references were retro flapper filtered through a modern lens: drop-waisted twinsets, patchwork dresses with floral embroidery, vivid patterned knits with a twenties pulse.<\/p>\n A furry coat in bold geometric color could have been worn in a chic part of London’s Camden.<\/p>\n Whether the ultra-low waistlines will land with the well-heeled clients who pack Chanel\u2019s front rows is another question.<\/p>\n Selling a radically new proportion to women with deep loyalty to the house is a different challenge than winning critical praise.<\/p>\n The final stretch answered that concern with force. Sequined plaid suits arrived in dazzling color. Beaded coats glinted with star-chart embroidery.<\/p>\n Metallic mesh was woven to mimic tweed motifs, and several models wore pastel-tinted hair to match their looks.<\/p>\n Fabric flowers burst from bodices.<\/p>\n Trailing ribbons, layered ruffles, and insect-wing detailing turned the runway into something closer to spectacle than commerce.<\/p>\n Blazy cast wide \u2014 teens through to women in their fifties \u2014 and let the show breathe, with a runway circuit that took models the better part of five minutes.<\/p>\n He framed it all with seven pared-back black and cream looks, as if to say: whatever else changes, the Chanel you know isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n If this second outing holds \u2014 on the penultimate day of fashion week \u2014 Blazy has found something rare at a heritage house: a way to honor the founder\u2019s voice without simply echoing it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. 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