On Tuesday, Chanel held its Métiers d’Art show — the first by artistic director Matthieu Blazy — underground in New York City’s Bowery subway station. It was quite a change of decor compared to the last time Chanel held this show in New York, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2018 (which was Karl Lagerfeld’s last Métiers d’Art).

“New York is, in a way, our second home,” Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel fashion and Chanel SAS told Vogue Business a few hours before the show. “Staging a show here opens a new chapter led by Matthieu’s creative vision. At the same time, New York is where Karl wanted to bring things to a close. So we’re re-engaging with New York through Matthieu’s perspective, looking toward the future with a different energy… Previously we were uptown, no

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