They were the two new kids on the block at Paris couture this week. Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 ©Spotlight“Couture works to its own timings,” is how Blazy put it. Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 ©SpotlightBoth returned again and again in our conversations to the notion of ‘lightness;’ of how to deliver the specialness of couture without the structures – and indeed strictures – of yore. Blazy didn’t put a foot wrong. “I wanted this couture show to be a break, a kind of poetic parenthesis.” It was, Matthieu, it was.