Matthieu Blazy’s fifth Chanel show opens in Biarritz

Show featured pink denim and suit printed with headlines from Gabrielle Chanel’s time at resort Chanel’s honeymoon period with new designer Matthieu Blazy shows no signs of cooling. Blazy’s fifth catwalk show – on the Biarritz beachfront where young milliner Gabrielle Chanel opened a boutique in 1915 – was an irresistibly seductive love letter to the enduring allure of the double-C logo. On the day before the show, sales assistants at the Biarritz boutique were holding up Chanel beach towels ...

By Jess Cartner-Morley in Biarritz