START SPREADING THE NEWS: Chanel is returning to the New York runway for the primary time in seven years.
The French trend home will current its first Métiers d’Artwork assortment designed by Matthieu Blazy on Dec. 2, it stated on Thursday. The precise location shall be disclosed at a later date. Chanel underlined its historic hyperlinks with the U.S., relationship again to founder Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s first journeys throughout the Atlantic within the Thirties.
“I’m delighted that Matthieu Blazy has chosen New York for his first Métiers d’Artwork present,” Bruno Pavlovsky, president of trend and president of Chanel SAS, stated in a press release. “He’ll make the inventive power of town he is aware of so effectively resonate with the distinctive savoir-faire of the home.”
From 2016 to 2019, Blazy was a part of the Calvin Klein group that Raf Simons dropped at New York, engaged on the lads’s and girls’s collections as design director.
He’ll make his official debut for Chanel in the course of the spring ready-to-wear exhibits in Paris in October, marking the tip of an unusually lengthy handover interval following the departure final 12 months of Virginie Viard.
Former inventive director Karl Lagerfeld staged the “Paris-New York” Métiers d’Artwork present on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in December 2018, two months earlier than his loss of life. Proven in entrance of the Temple of Dendur, the gathering drew inspiration from Historic Egypt.
“It was Karl’s final present, so we all the time get somewhat nostalgic once we speak about it in-house. However going again to New York with Matthieu and the start of a brand new season is tremendous thrilling,” Pavlovsky advised WWD.
“He’s very captivated with exhibiting in New York. It’s a metropolis he is aware of effectively, the place he’s lived and labored,” the manager added. “New York is all the time a daring alternative, as a result of it’s one of the necessary cities for us by way of picture and enterprise. Following Matthieu to New York shall be filled with surprises for everybody.”
In tandem with the announcement, Chanel launched the primary visible teaser of Blazy’s tenure: a classic New York subway map with a double-C emblem superimposed.
The model has introduced the Métiers d’Artwork line, timed across the pre-fall season, in cities as far-flung as Tokyo; New York; Rome; Edinburgh, Scotland; Salzburg, Austria, and Dallas. For the final three editions, it explored cities off the overwhelmed luxurious observe with exhibits in Hangzhou, China; Manchester, England; and Dakar, Senegal.
The Métiers d’Artwork collections rejoice the capabilities of the specialty ateliers Chanel has acquired via its Paraffection subsidiary. A number of of them are actually grouped at Le19M, a placing constructing designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti and situated close to Porte d’Aubervilliers, a working-class space north of Paris.
Le19M brings collectively embroiderer and tweed-maker Lesage, its embroidery faculty and Lesage Intérieurs; embroidery workshop Montex and its ornament division MTX; shoemaker Massaro; feather- and flower-maker Lemarié; milliner Maison Michel; pleater Lognon; grand flou atelier Paloma, and goldsmith Goossens.
