Everyone wants a piece of Matthieu Blazy’s Spring/Summer ’26 collection.
Matthieu Blazy released his debut collection to the public during the most recent Paris Fashion Week, when the world’s most stylish models, editors, influencers and tastemakers were gathered in the style capital. Chaos ensued as everyone tried to get their hands on the highly anticipated pieces from this collection.
An impressive marketing strategy, Blazy has kept up the momentum since showing his Spring/Summer ’26 collection by putting on show after show, sustaining the hype for more than half a year. With his successful Cruise 2026 presentation in Singapore, Métiers d’art 2026 home run in New York City, and his dreamy Spring 2026 couture show, he has kept the conversation firmly on Chanel.
Below, BAZAAR breaks down Chanel’s Spring/Summer ’26 collection.
Chanel Spring/Summer ’26 collection (Photo: Chanel)
Matthieu Blazy’s first collection for the French fashion house explores the wardrobe of the modern Chanel woman in three parts: Un Paradoxe, Le Jour, and L’Universel. The first section references Gabrielle Chanel directly, specifically her affinity for borrowing menswear from her longtime partner, English polo player Boy Capel. Blazy creates the simple shirt, in collaboration with history French shirtmaker, Charvet, and pairs it with bold, voluminous skirts. Suit jackets with strong, rounded shoulders add a masculine element to otherwise slender silhouettes. “The paradox is in Gabrielle Chanel’s feminine power, won through a wardrobe where the practical and pragmatic never surrender the seductive and striking,” writes Blazy in official show notes.
Le Jour puts a focus on daywear. Blazy studies how daily movement wears down garments over time, transposing it onto knitted silk suits adorned with crumpled camellias, tweed suits with frayed edges, and notably, the iconic 2.55 bag, now deliberately crushed and its inner lining exposed. Lastly, L’Universel deconstructs the codes of Chanel; the architecture of the Chanel suit is laid bare, with the emblematic tweed finding itself remade with hand-knotted knits. In his Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Blazy–like his vision of the Chanel woman–is on the move, forging ahead with conviction into the future.
