In CHANEL Wonderland: the Haute Couture show Spring/Summer 2026 & some looks that I liked 

“Haute Couture is the very soul of Chanel – it is the foundation and the full expression of the House.These are clothes that are as much about the wearer as the designer. It’s the clothes worn that give them a true story; their own story and an emotional resonance, giving women a canvas to tell their own story”, said Matthieu Blazy. How Chanel Haute Couture show Spring/Summer 2026 looked like? Well, I could easily say that I was transported back to Wonderland. A Chanel one, of course. 

#FashionBlogger #FashionTrend #English

Chanel collections – www.chanel.com. 

The event: Chanel Haute Couture show Spring/Summer 2026. In his debut Haute Couture collection and show for the House, Matthieu Blazy, as Artistic Director of Fashion Activities, refines and reexamines the heart of Chanel.

The designer: Matthieu Blazy is only the fourth designer in Chanel’s 116-year history, making spring 2026 a milestone for the oldest continuously operating couture house. 

The decor: the historic Grand Palais, the set was filled with giant pink and red mushrooms. A poetic scene is set, as simple and complex as a haiku; of stylized nature, a suspension in time, embracing the poignancy of the moment, to frame and tell their story.

The idea of the collection: Revealed through lightness, movement and self expression, the woman who wears the clothes is celebrated, each in her distinct individuality.

The tones, the fabrics, the clothes, the transforming process: Delineated and defined, stripped to its essential dimensions and constructed from transparencies of silk mousseline in tender shades, the Chanel suit opens the show. It appears almost as a memory of Chanel’s layered histories, entwined with the wearer’s own; a delicate embroidered love letter, a bottle of N°5, a red lipstick… tokens and emotional artifacts appear, in silk mousseline or as jewelry. Slipped into pockets, stitched into interiors, suspended from the famous chain that weights, or in a “palimpsest” of the iconic bag; a symbolic interior life is exposed to the exterior. A love letter, both to the craft and construction of Haute Couture, and in its literal form. Yet during this process, a metamorphosis occurs; the women at the centre of the collection, begin to transform into birds. A multiplicity of birds is imagined, each singular in shape and form, realized through the rituals of the Haute Couture flou and tailleur ateliers, together with the artisans of fabric making, embroidery, and pleating. From raven black looks, with a concentration on the supreme cutting skills of the tailleur and their flow in the flou, to complex colored plumage evoked in embroidery, layering, pleating and weaving, where the feather is often conjured, yet hardly used. 

Photography: (c) CHANEL.