Matthieu Blazy’s first Chanel collection lands in Manhattan, extending the brand’s long bond with New York City.
Chanel will close the year on familiar yet fertile ground: New York City. On December 2, 2025, the House stages its 2025-2026 Métiers d’Art runway collection there, deepening a story that began when Gabrielle Chanel first crossed the Atlantic in the 1930s and stretched to the Met’s “Paris–New York” presentation in 2018.
This chapter comes with a fresh author. Matthieu Blazy, newly responsible for the line, will lead his first Métiers d’Art show for Chanel. “I am delighted that Matthieu Blazy has chosen New York for his first Métiers d’art show,” said Bruno Pavlovsky, President of Chanel Fashion. “He will make the creative energy of the city he knows so well resonate with the exceptional savoir‑faire of the House.”
Métiers d’Art is Chanel’s tribute to the artisans, embroiderers, feather workers, paruriers, pleaters, shoemakers, milliners, goldsmiths, whose skills turn imagination into garments. Since the inaugural show in 2002, the series has placed these workshops center stage, setting them far from the margins usually reserved for supply‑chain credits.
Chanel’s support of these crafts dates to 1985, when the brand began acquiring and protecting specialist ateliers. That stewardship allows techniques to endure, while giving designers room to test new ideas. In practice, the program turns heritage into a living laboratory, ensuring each collection links yesterday’s lessons with tomorrow’s needs.
New York, a city built on reinvention, offers a fitting arena. No silhouettes have surfaced yet, but the venue alone hints at a conversation between high craft and urban heat: intricate embroidery against Manhattan steel, hand‑tucked pleats moving through downtown traffic, millinery sharp enough for skyline light. Chanel’s artisans will land with centuries‑old tools, tuned to a city that never pauses.
