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Showmanship returns at Chanel as Blazy debuts under a sky of planets
Gulf Today
|October 08, 2025
Showmanship returned to Chanel on Monday. At Paris Fashion Week, its new designer Matthieu Blazy opened the season's most anticipated debut beneath colossal celestial bodies - Saturn with its rings, a full solar system suspended above a jet-black and a mirror-bright runway - staking a claim for theatre from the first second.
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Reflections doubled the cosmos underfoot as a front-row constellation of stars, including Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton, looked up. By night’s end, the room rose in a standing ovation. As Vogue's doyenne Anna Wintour has said, “fashion needs its showmen.” Chanel had one again.
This story is from the October 08, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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