Out of this world Blazy's debut show launches Chanel into another galaxy

Clutch your pearls. Cover your ears. Talk about a big bang: under a galactic stage set, the designer Matthieu Blazy just blasted the world's most famous fashion brand through the sound barrier and into the 21st century.

- Jess Cartner-Morley

Backstage after his debut, Blazy quoted what Coco Chanel once said when asked why she wore the same tweed jacket day after day. "She said, if I translate into English: 'I don't give a fuck. I like them worn.'" This is Blazy's take on the house that Coco Chanel founded: Chanel, with no fucks given.

Under a helium solar system, a giant sun blazing and Saturn spinning within its rings, Blazy was thinking big and thinking new. In the front row, actors Ayo Edebiri and Nicole Kidman wore Chanel jeans. The 2.55 quilted bags came scrunched and open, "lived and cherished, as if it was your great-grandmother's bag, and you took it to a party on the Lower East Side or in Paris at Pigalle".

There were suits in clownfish Nemo stripes, exquisite oversize Charvet cotton shirts for evening and a standing ovation finale as the model Awar Odhiang danced on the catwalk in a silk T-shirt and rainbow-feathered skirt.