10 details I loved at Chanel Cruise collection 2026

Well, we can say, no doubt, Matthieu Blazy nailed it. The hottest gossip in town is that about the new and beautiful collection Chanel Cruise collection 2026, just presented at Biarritz by the Creative director of the French house. The details I personally loved at Chanel Cruise collection 2026 are… 

1. First of all, I loved the gigantic colorful rafia bag. The accessories of the collection reinforce the idea of a journey, spanning the practical and playful across an abundance of styles. From a small valise handbag to a full-grown holdall; from a waterproof flap bag to a giant striped beach panier. 

2. Secondly, the smart way to put the full length rafia accessorized skirt. Perpetually in motion, from fluttering silk foulard ensembles and rustling raffia skirts to washed cotton canvas suiting, the essential enjoyment of dressing and undressing. In his first Chanel Cruise collection, Matthieu Blazy, Artistic Director of Fashion Activities, celebrates the Basque coast, both purposefully and playfully. And the polo T-shirt with landscape prints. 

3. The wonderful and super innovative make-up – more than a make-up, but a installation with light red feathers.

4. The double C on the navy deux pieces – the double C is the other linking line represented, not as an exercise in branding, but as part of an elemental architecture in garments. Radically introduced to clothing in the 1930s, its sinuous contours denote the rigorous signature of Gabrielle Chanel and a sense of her manifesto and autobiography in attire.

5. The swimming cap. the bathing suit is also key – guides the collection.

6. The beach inspired accessories – the jewelry, too, echoes the Art Deco architecture of Biarritz, alongside its life aquatic, where shell earrings are held to the ear, and the Chanel pearl finds its spiritual home.

7. The sea inspired clutches – as an iconic reference to beaches and jetset style. 

8. The black dress – in this Cruise collection, Matthieu Blazy presents Gabrielle Chanel’s 1926 black dress as look one. Returning to the original archival sketch, the widely distributed drawing of the dress in 1926 did not show a large bow visible from the back. Today, it is transposed into a clutch bag. 

9. The denim duo – the black dress, as ‘workwear’ that blurred hierarchies by being worn across different strata of society, would later be echoed in the latter half of the last century by denim jeans. Denim itself is thought to originate in the South of France, ‘de Nimes’.

10. The finale – the amazing black structural dress.

About Chanel Cruise collection 2026…. 

Sous le salon la plage: In Biarritz, Gabrielle Chanel opened her couture house and presented her first collections. Here she aligned the timeless natural world with the timely modern one, and in so doing definitively changed the existing order of fashion. Helping to free women from the literal constraints of convention found in a salon-bound existence, it was the world of the outdoors, of the elements, of the sea, the beach, the sun and the wind, that demanded practicality and comfort in movement. In her new jersey and sportswear, Gabrielle Chanel so provided.

About Chanel & Biarritz… 

In Biarritz, Gabrielle Chanel creates her couture house in 1915 and lays the foundations for a functional and carefree elegance echoing the city’s creative energy and spirit. After her acclaimed debut as a milliner in Paris, and the opening of a first boutique in Deauville in 1912 and another one in Monte-Carlo in 1914, Gabrielle Chanel creates her couture house in Biarritz in 1915. The city is the perfect backdrop for her pioneering ideas. The freedom of movement that is synonymous with Chanel, fuelled by the oceanic energy of Biarritz is expressed in the Cruise 2026/27 show teaser, through a series of photos and videos. With the poetic strength of black and white, photographer and director Julien Martinez Leclerc stages model Noor Khan and dancer Kirill Sokołowski. A milestone, Biarritz is fundamental in the history of the House.

Photography: (c) CHANEL.