A Sultry Aylah Peterson for Wallpaper's Fall Style + Musings on Male Designers

A Sultry Aylah Peterson for Wallpaper's Fall Style + Musings on Male Designers AOC Fashion

Top model Aylah Peterson is styled by Jason Hughes in ‘Identity Parade’, a sumptuous fashion story with strong woman looks from Alaïa, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani, Ferragamo, Gucci, Issey Miyake, Khaite, Loro Piana, Maison Margiels, Roberto Cavalli, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.

Parisian photographers Antoine and Charlie [IG] capture Peterson for Wallpaper Magazine [IG] September 2026 focus on fall fashion./ Hair by Chris Sweeney; makeup by Megumi Matsuno

Raw, Real Desire to Fly

This is one of those high-impact, sophisticated fashion stories that AOC loves. In the shot above — Aylah Peterson’s eyes, the tilt of her head and face is both honest and compelling. In the text for this story by Jack Moss, he gives high praise to Blazy being so attuned to his clients, which are primarily women.

Blazy has said — probably in the notes for the A/W 2026 show with the caterpillar and the butterfly —

‘Chanel is a paradox. Chanel is function, Chanel is fiction. Chanel is sensible, Chanel is seductive. Chanel is day, Chanel is night. It represents the freedom to choose between the caterpillar and the butterfly whenever you want,’ he said. ‘I wish to create a canvas for women to be unapologetically who they are and who they want to be.’

Love Us and Loathe Us

I’ve often said that there are three kinds of gay guys in luxury fashion: 1] men who basically loathe us, but we come in handy as the muse and VIC, and 2] men who truly love women. I’d say the ratio is about 2:1 in the loathe us: love us ratio. And there’s a group of great guys in the middle, who may not be gay at all, and they never sneer at us, when we’re not in the room. Group #1 sneers. Think the Italian futurists.

Tom Ford, hands down, is at the top of the “love us list” of designers. Marc Jacobs is up there as well, and his clothes often had sex appeal at Louis Vuitton. But Matthieu Blazy is reinventing the relationship between the designer and the client on a grand scale — in the world of male designers.