{"id":875,"date":"2025-07-18T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:45:49","slug":"chanel-the-swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Chanel: The Swan Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 8, Chanel didn&rsquo;t show: she meditated. A studio, a bow. Willo Perron designed an intimate, unfussy decor. Everything was held in restraint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No break.<br>A breath of continuity.<br>Tweed, wheat, the freedom of the female body:<br>so many signs placed like offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t a demonstration.<br>It was a passage.<br>The discreet song of a house awaiting its new face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthieu Blazy arrives.<br>Time is running out.<br>But Chanel has chosen modesty.<br>An interlude before the transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this restrained silence, a truth can be discerned:<br>a house can be both immense and fragile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Chanel doesn&rsquo;t look back: it reinvents itself in silence.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CHIKH Larbi, for&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/\">www.the-8th-art.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cr\u00e9dit photo: FHCM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 8, Chanel didn&rsquo;t show: she meditated. A studio, a bow. Willo Perron designed an intimate, unfussy decor. Everything was held in restraint. No break.A breath of continuity.Tweed, wheat, the freedom of the female body:so many signs placed like offerings. It wasn&rsquo;t a demonstration.It was a passage.The discreet song of a house awaiting its &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chikh-larbi","category-haute-couture","category-haute-couture-fall-winter-2025-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-8th-art.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}