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Coco Chanel famously said, “Fashion changes, but style endures.” Still, the designer change at Chanel this season sent interest in the Paris house into the stratosphere. Matthieu Blazy’s collection was deeply influenced by what he discovered in the Chanel archives — “it was too much beauty, almost,” he said of the experience — and on the Grand Palais runway, the diversity of the clothes reflected what he found there, as well as, of course, his own keen interest in rich, surprising textiles.
Blazy’s Chanel has been roundly praised as the debut of the season, including on Vogue Runway; not just for the sensitive manner in which he reinterpreted the house’s famous codes, but also…
