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 here, here and here). Other prevalent throw-on-and-go highlights: a billowy lightweight trench at Cos—i.e., substantial enough to pass as a dress or, really, to be the entire outfit. A long-sleeve T-shirt—or five (here and here); A high-neck cardigan; A single breasted blazer (I’m not sure one is enough here—as in the cropped Chanel-inspired one, last pic); A Western belt. And high-vamp ballet flats—the kind Jamie Haller and Schutz are doing that cover more of the foot and suddenly make the skimpier ballet flats in my closet look a little last season.