For the 2026 Métiers d’Art collection, CHANEL steps into the pulse of New York City, drawing inspiration from its most iconic equalizer—the subway. For Artistic Director Matthieu Blazy, it is a place where every kind of New Yorker crosses paths, each with their own story, style, and spark. This everyday theatre becomes the backdrop for a collection where the ordinary is transformed through the magic of the Maisons d’art. Blazy also revisits Gabrielle Chanel’s 1931 trips to New York, when downtown women—who wore Chanel in their own way—renewed her belief in the brand’s universal appeal. Today, that spark returns. CHANEL’s Métiers d’Art 2026 is a love story between Paris and New York—bold, cinematic, and alive.
The show unfolds like a film: socialites, students, showgirls, mothers on the move—even Coco Chanel herself—move through a narrative that blends grit and glamour, reality and imagination. Blazy plays with time, weaving the 1920s into the 2020s, letting Art Deco fantasy collide with modern pop energy. Denim slips into “lingerie,” flannel becomes sumptuous bouclé, and minaudières take the form of oysters, apples, and cheeky charms. Every look reveals the exquisite handiwork of Lesage, Lemarié, Goossens, Montex, and Massaro.
New York’s “urban jungle” takes shape through characters both mythical and familiar: a leopard-tweed cat woman, a woman in a razor-sharp black suit carrying a gilded-alligator illusion bag, a tulip skirt crafted petal by petal, a 1930s slip alive with shimmering fish embroidery.
