There’s something full-circle about Chanel returning to Biarritz. After all, this is where Gabrielle Chanel first began shifting Parisian fashion away from the rigidity of the time. More than a century later, for his debut Cruise collection for the house, Matthieu Blazy returned to the same stretch of coastline, using it both as a backdrop and a framework for what he described in the show notes as “the perfect balance between function and fiction”.
He titled the collection “Sous…

