Models Anamaria Cioboata, Fiona James and Stephanie Cavalli needed a day off from all this Chanel insanity. A walk in the woods sounded nice but also a bit too quiet, given the velocity of their lives lately.
Photographer Estelle Hanania [IG] suggested a ‘Pressure Release’ of all that pent up, months-long testosterone waiting to be wild in older women — especially in a girl gaggle. Stylist Benoit Bethume agreed and this Family Style [IG] No.10 fashion story was ready to ride.
Vogue Poland’s EIC [IG] and photographer Ina Levy [IG] continues her voyage across America, setting up her latest fashion shoot in Marfa, Texas. Featuring model Aneken Zaldivar [IG] from Mexico City, AOC posts the Chanel Official story on the day — Monday, March 9, 2026 — that creative director Matthieu Blazy delivered another blockbuster presentation of the Chanel FW 2026 collection in Paris.
Chiara Janczarek styled this fashion story for Chanel and Chanel Beauty./ Makeup by Ingeborg
Matthieu Blazy takesthe Chanel 25 [IG] handbag — okay every version of the Chanel 25 handbag — and puts them in the eager hands of house ambassador Margot Robbie. Michel Gondry’s 2002 music video for Kylie Minogue’s ‘Come Into My World’ adds the magic touch of more Blazy joy from Chanel to us.
It’s contagious as Robbie cruises through a Parisian neighborhood, multiplying into yet more Robbies with yet another version of the Chanel 25 handbag.
Anne of Carversville is ‘on the record’ embracing the belief that Chanel artistic director Matthieu Blazy has quickly soared to the summit of a global, luxury clients love-in around his vision — not only for the Chanel brand, but for Coco Chanel herself.
In this fashion story ‘Paradis Blanc’ model Billie Dane is styled by Laëtitia Leporcq in white shirts from Blazy’s Charvet x Chanel collaboration, Brunello Cucinelli, Louis Vuitton and more. Photographer Andréa Gori [IG] captures a core item of fashion’s new season for M Le magazine du Monde [IG] March 2026.
Reading the news Friday that Bhavitha Mandava has been tapped as a Chanel ambassador, AOC realized that we hadn’t posted the Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 campaign. The entire model list besides Mandava includes Aditsa Berzenia, Awar Odhiang, Cathy Simmons, Josephen Akuel, Latahlia Hickling, Loli Bahia, Marta Freccia, Noor Khan, Waleska Gorczevski, and Xiuli Jiang.
American photographer Alec Soth [IG],who worked with Blazy at Bottega Veneta, shot the campaign at La Pausa, Gabrielle Chanel’s South of France villa.
Irony runneth over for Bhavitha Mandava, an India-born and educated architect who moved to New York City to join NYU’s program in assistive technology. One day this gorgeous young woman with a big brain and a ‘smile to die for’ was scouted on the New York subway as an exclusive in Matthieu Blazy’s Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2025 show.
That event was only the beginning for Mandava. When Blazy moved to Chanel shortly after, the new girl went with him. In record time, this young woman ambassador for the uber-challenging, big rewards for women winners breaking through barriers in New York City would open the Chanel Métiers d’Art 2026 Show in New York City.
Where did we find Bhavitha Mandava the night of December 2, 2025? Back in the subway.
CHANEL ambassador Penelope Cruz covers the Fashion 2026 issue of W Magazine China [IG], wearing key pieces from the Matthieu Blazy’s October in Paris Spring 2026 collection. Blazy’s CHANEL woman is more expressive, free and alive with vitality.
The Chanel woman is absolutely more modern than under Lagerfeld. Not younger, just more modern. Cruz is styled by Austin Feng, with images by Zhong Lin [IG].
Elordi was equally relaxed as an Aussie man chilling with fellow Aussie Robbie in a Bottega Veneta jacket, tank top and pants. One uses the word ‘jacket’ loosely.On Robbie, it’s a shrug or cardigan.
What’s obvious to AOC is the growing numbers of men being totally relaxed wearing femme fashion.
No intellectual edict is required by the designer. They’re just doing it — like Pharrell was doing in Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld a decade ago. No star designer is creating this look in 2026, even though one will probably claim it.
New super [Models.com] Mona Tougaard showcases Chanel’s Spring 2026 Matthieu Blazy debut for W Magazine China’s [IG] February 2026 Fashion issue. Austin Feng styles Mona’s four covers and fashion spread, lensed by Zhong Lin [IG]. / Hair by Evanie Frausto; makeup by Fulvia Farolfi
