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There’s nothing particularly novel about showing a runway collection on a New York City subway. Jeremy Scott did it, Tom Ford did it, and long before that, Imitation of Christ did it… well, they did it in Los Angeles. So Matthieu Blazy wasn’t trying to be a revolutionary when he staged his first Chanel Métiers d’art collection yesterday in an out-of-use subway station on the Bowery, with the platform pillars painted that very particular Chanel shade of soft red.
