On October 5, 2026, Chanel staged its Spring/Summer 2027 show at the Grand Palais in Paris, a dusk presentation beneath a canopy of golden birds designed by Arnaud Selve. The collection, titled “La Conversation – Part Three – Different Faces of the Same Coin,” marks one year since Matthieu Blazy became Artistic Director of Fashion Activities and the third chapter of his ongoing dialogue with Gabrielle Chanel.
The clothes retrace the founder’s life stages, from jersey underwear and Edwardian corsetry references to postwar tailoring and a new stretch smocked tweed that closes the show. For model watchers, the more useful read is the cast. Chanel has not confirmed a campaign rollout for this chapter, which makes the runway bookings themselves the signal worth tracking.
Dyanira Hurbuscher Opens and Closes With Gabrielle Chanel’s 2.55
Model Dyanira Hurbuscher opened the show holding Gabrielle Chanel’s personal 2.55 bag, pulled from the house’s Patrimoine archives, then returned with the same bag for the finale. Opening and closing a Chanel show is already a trust slot. Bookending it with the founder’s own quilted flap bag, created in February 1955, raises the stakes.
That bag freed women’s hands when it launched and remains one of the house’s most recognizable objects. Handing it to one model for the first and last look makes her the through-line of a collection built on circularity. Read it as a house-confidence booking, the kind that often precedes editorial and campaign attention.
Rachel Ojuromi: From Lagos Street Videos to a Chanel Runway
Rachel Ojuromi, a Lagos-based model and content creator, made her Chanel runway debut. She built a following by styling Chanel-inspired looks from her own wardrobe, thrifted finds and Nigerian labels with designer and stylist Debby Fasingha, filming on the streets of Lagos. Blazy commented on her posts and eventually invited her to walk.
Her path matters because it shows a major house scouting well outside the traditional pipeline. The rest of the cast carries the same logic. Anok Yai closed the cloud and sky sequence in a constellation-print gown, and Bhavitha Mandava walked after her appointment as a Chanel ambassador. Together the lineup stacks four roles: archive symbol-bearer, digital discovery, editorial star and long-term ambassador.
What the SS27 Cast Says About the Chanel Woman
Blazy built the season around the idea that a woman becomes many versions of herself over a lifetime. “Throughout their lives, women become multiple selves, different faces of the same coin,” he wrote in the show notes. The clothes ask something similar of the models: sheer tailoring worn against bare skin, raw-edged gilets, pencil-skirt suits, and a stretch tweed engineered so the classic Chanel suit moves almost like sportswear.
That brief rewards ease and fluid movement over rigid posing. Cloud bags, a birdcage-shaped evening bag with birds escaping, and swallow-shaped buttons and jewelry reinforce the theme of freedom, and the model who carries that idea without straining the clothes is the one who fits.
“This is not a historical collection; it’s a collection about Gabrielle Chanel’s layered stories. Ultimately, Chanel took off, and each step she took led to her being free, like a bird,” Blazy wrote. Watch which of these faces resurface in Chanel imagery, beauty work or pre-fall in the months ahead. If the pattern holds, the model holding the 2.55 is the one to track first.
