Coco Beach 2026 Campaign Lensed by Julien Martinez Lecler Is Not Inert

Coco Beach 2026 Campaign Lensed by Julien Martinez Leclerc AOC Fashion

Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel is in high gear, manifesting clarity of vision, intention, artistry and modernity expressed in the Coco Beach 2026 Campaign.

Creative director Sheila Single [IG] and photographer Julien Martinez Leclerc [IG] deliver an atypical summer campaign that is driven by graphic composition and precise placement.

We are suspended in stillness, our brains playing with paper dolls posing as models Elodie Guipaud, Rebecca Leigh Longendyke, and Sun Mizrahi. / Hair by Lukas Tralmer; makeup by Christelle Cacquet

Matthieu Blazy’s Hard Stop

Blazy’s women are so on the move — much like Coco Chanel herself or Chanel’s fabulous CEO Leena Nair — that being suspended in stillness, even lying motionless on black sand — they are out-of-predicted behavior mode.

AOC’s Mycelium Man outsmarts us with a hard stop. I know; I know. Here she goes again with the mushrooms. Get used to it.

Nature’s underground mycelium network is always on my mind; as is Maria Grazia Chiuri’s ‘Less I, More Us’. It’s the absolute opposite view from the Sun King’s perspective.

Blazy’s entire process is so horizontal and so is Leena Nair’s, that I had to ask AI a technical question about volcanic sand, rock and ash.

Somehow, I knew the answer before I asked the question. Is that black sand truly inert — or could the Mycelium Man magically bring it to life?