[Video] Nearly 100 Glowing Birds Fill the Grand Palais: Chanel Spring Summer 2027 Debuts Stretch 'Smocked Tweed' as Wang Yibo Returns for His 11th Show
On the evening of October 5, during Paris Fashion Week, Chanel presented its Spring Summer 2027 ready-to-wear collection at the Grand Palais in Paris. It was artistic director Matthieu Blazy's third ready-to-wear collection for the house, marking his first anniversary in the role: 83 looks under the title "La Conversation, Part Three — Different Faces of the Same Coin."
The collection follows the life of founder Gabrielle Chanel — from the Edwardian corsetry she once wore and then abandoned, and her pioneering jersey, to the tweed suiting that made her name and the richer glamour of her later years. In the show notes, Blazy wrote that women become multiple selves across a lifetime, different faces of the same coin, and that this was not a historical collection but one about Gabrielle Chanel's layered stories. Model Dyanira Hurbuscher both opened and closed the show, each time carrying Gabrielle Chanel's own 2.55 handbag, taken from the house's Patrimoine archives for the occasion.
Nearly a hundred illuminated birds hung in flight beneath the Grand Palais glass roof, inspired by a migratory bird sanctuary near the village in southern Italy where Blazy vacations, above a floor painted to shimmer like a riverbed. Birds also alighted on the clothes as buttons, jewellery and embroidery, symbols of freedom and migration.
According to Reuters, the season's highlights included sheer cream and black skirt suits embroidered with flowers and beads, tweed loosened into wide windowpane checks with mesh panels, and an eye-catching red-and-white tiger-print tweed. The final chapter debuted "smocked tweed," an engineered stretch fabric that moves like a second skin while keeping the look of classic suiting. Accessories included cloud-printed leather goods, a birdcage minaudière and new watch-chain flap bags. The soundtrack moved from Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" into a remix of Britney Spears' "Gimme More," as Blazy ran out to take his bow.
Front-row guests included ambassador Nicole Kidman, attending with her 15-year-old daughter Faith, Dua Lipa, Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig and Marion Cotillard. The house's official front-row list also featured prominent Chinese faces: house ambassador Wang Yibo, wearing a newspaper-print coat from the not-yet-released Cruise 2027 collection at his 11th Chanel show, and actresses Xin Zhilei and Leah Dou.
The collection is scheduled to reach boutiques from March 2027. (GSM, from Reuters reporting and the house's public materials)
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