Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel show celebrates and plays with brand’s history

New designer’s kid-in-a-candy-store enthusiasm is evident in confident colours and loosened silhouettes A building site, but make it chic: that was the set for Chanel’s Paris fashion week show. Cranes in Meccano-bright colours towered over the catwalk, their reflection shimmering sequin-bright on an opalescent floor that was inspired by Monet, according to the designer Matthieu Blazy. (Monet has been a backstage buzzword at Dior and Chanel this week, as the two giants battle for bragging righ...

By Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris