START SPREADING THE NEWS: Chanel is returning to the New York runway for the primary time in seven years.
The French style home will current its first Métiers d’Artwork assortment designed by Matthieu Blazy on Dec. 2, it stated on Thursday. The precise location can be disclosed at a later date. Chanel underlined its historic hyperlinks with the U.S., courting 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 style and president of Chanel SAS, stated in an announcement. “He’ll make the inventive power of town he is aware of so nicely resonate with the distinctive savoir-faire of the home.”
From 2016 to 2019, Blazy was a part of the Calvin Klein workforce that Raf Simons delivered to New York, engaged on the boys’s and ladies’s collections as design director.
He’ll make his official debut for Chanel through the spring ready-to-wear reveals 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 a little bit nostalgic after 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 informed WWD.
“He’s very passionate about exhibiting in New York. It’s a metropolis he is aware of nicely, the place he’s lived and labored,” the manager added. “New York is all the time a daring selection, as a result of it’s one of the essential cities for us when it comes to picture and enterprise. Following Matthieu to New York can 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 brand superimposed.
The model has offered 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 crushed luxurious observe with reveals in Hangzhou, China; Manchester, England; and Dakar, Senegal.
The Métiers d’Artwork collections have fun the capabilities of the specialty ateliers Chanel has acquired by means of its Paraffection subsidiary. A number of of them at the moment are grouped at Le19M, a putting constructing designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti and positioned 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.
