07/10/2025
The attitude is that of a pioneer discoverer of new worlds, and the amazement may resemble that of Christopher Columbus upon landing in the Bay of Bariay. But the world of Coco Chanel is celebrated and simultaneously radically transformed in Matthieu Blazy’s creative line. However, the New Indies on the other side of the Atlantic are not the French designer’s geographic and market reference. The maison’s new direction revisits the colonial world resumed in the show’s celebratory closing with Awar Odhiang.
The camellia takes on the appearance of a South African Protea, and the slingbacks revolutionize the canon of Coco’s most famous shoe. The men’s belt, far removed from the imagery of the famous chain, seems to be a reference from Boy Chapel’s wardrobe and opens the show. The cuffs, redesigned as tribal-inspired jewelry, accompany a collection where the double CC is barely whispered to the rhythm of Jenni B. . All the article on zoemagazine.net
