On January 27, 2026, Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 unfolded beneath the glass vault of Paris’s Grand Palais, and the headline wrote itself: this was the moment Matthieu Blazy debuted his first Haute Couture collection for Chanel.
On January 27, 2026, Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 unfolded beneath the glass vault of Paris’s Grand Palais, and the headline wrote itself: this was the moment Matthieu Blazy debuted his first Haute Couture collection for Chanel.
January 28, 2026
On January 27, 2026, Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 unfolded beneath the glass vault of Paris’s Grand Palais, and the headline wrote itself: this was the moment Matthieu Blazy debuted his first Haute Couture collection for Chanel.
A powder pink carpet ran through a fantasy forest of towering toadstools and cascading blush willows, with a silver mushroom charm setting the tone before a single look appeared. In the front row, the kind of faces that signal fashion’s attention at full volume-Nicole Kidman, Dua Lipa, Tilda Swinton-watched a new era take its opening steps.
What made the day historic lived in two truths. First, couture is the house’s highest language, and Blazy’s debut placed his signature directly into Chanel’s most protected grammar-he is only the fourth designer to lead the maison across its long history, so the “first couture” carries extra weight. Second, the collection treated couture as memory you can wear: garments held intimate tokens-love letters, birthdates, personal talismans-stitched into the silhouette with the precision of an atelier that understands sentiment as a material.
On the runway, the product story was built on levitation. The Chanel suit opened in sheer silk mousseline, pared back to essential lines so light it read like an apparition of the code rather than a replica. That same idea of “weightless, yet exact” returned in slip dresses with gem strapping and in birdcage earrings detailed with pearls, while Blazy’s trompe l’oeil instincts surfaced in textures that flirted with illusion-denim rendered in mousseline, feathers suggested in leather. The show’s central metamorphosis-woman into bird, freedom into form-moved through feather like surfaces, airy construction, and the choreography of fabric that seemed made for motion.
Even the symbols landed with intention: the official show notes framed couture as a braid of Chanel history and the wearer’s own, where a love letter might appear beside a bottle of N°5 or a flash of red lipstick as emotional artifacts translated into couture detail. In that sense, Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 delivered more than a beautiful debut-it set a thesis for what Chanel couture can be next: intimate, cinematic, and engineered so finely that fantasy feels wearable.
