With the season’s hottest debut, Blazy is charting new territory for Chanel — and fashion itself — fuelled by new insights into Gabrielle Chanel’s own creative process, the designer tells Tim Blanks in an in-depth global exclusive interview.
Designer Matthieu Blazy is charting new territory for Chanel, fuelled by new insights into Gabrielle Chanel’s own creative process. (Oliver Hadlee Pearch for BoF)
By Tim Blanks
06 October 2025
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