Back in December of 2025, Matthieu Blazy opened his first Chanel pre-fall collection with faded, baggy jeans, a T-shirt and a quarter zip-up knit, above. Which, for Chanel, felt almost radical precisely because it wasn’t. No boucle. No elaborate beading. Just the kind of clothes women actually throw on. I kept thinking about that first look yesterday while making the back-to-school rounds at the Century City mall, because I saw iterations of the zip-up everywhere (namely , and ). Other prevalent throw-on-and-go highlights: a —i.e., substantial enough to pass as a dress or, really, to be the entire outfit. A l—or five ( and ); A ; A (I’m not sure one is enough here—as in the , last pic); A And high-vamp ballet flats—the kind and are doing that cover more of the foot and suddenly make the skimpier ballet flats in my closet look a little last season.