Spanish soccer star Lamine Yamal hit the 70th Ballon d’Or Ceremony red carpet in Chanel at the Palladium Theatre in London on Monday night. The 19-year-old went on to collect his third consecutive men’s Kopa Trophy, becoming the first player to win the award three times.
Lamine Yamal
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The athlete did a callback to the French luxury fashion house’s spring 2026 ready-to-wear collection, sporting a monochrome black suit with a colorful muted pink wheat sheaf-style brooch on his single-breasted suit jacket.
The brooch was undoubtedly the hero accessory of Yamal’s red carpet look and recalled the oversize florals that appeared throughout creative director Matthieu Blazy’s first collection for Chanel. “Describing his first season as a ‘roller coaster,’ he said he was initially overwhelmed by the archive,” Joelle Diderich wrote in WWD’s review of Blazy’s spring 2026 collection.
Chanel spring 2026
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“It was too much beauty, almost, and I didn’t know where to take it from,” Blazy said, per Diderich’s review. “The good thing with the codes of Chanel is that you can also reduce them. They still look like Chanel.”
Looking through the archive, Blazy also recalled a familiar motif in the wheat sheaf. The designer “said he was inspired
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