Tailoring has been loosening its seams for decades, but few garments chart that evolution quite like the Chanel suit. Once synonymous with ladylike tweeds and polished restraint, the silhouette has entered a sharper, more subversive era under new creative director Matthieu Blazy and Dua Lipa is clearly on board.

While out in Mexico City, the singer stepped into a decisively modern interpretation of Coco Chanel’s most iconic design. The look, the opening outfit from Chanel’s Spring 2026 show, previously worn by Michelle Obama replaced heritage tweeds with a dark, business-coded check fabric that felt borrowed from a power suit wardrobe. The jacket featured sculpted, padded shoulders, elongated sleeves, and an upturned black collar, while asymmetrically placed gold buttons and a cropped, distressed hemline disrupted the expected polish.

Instead of the traditional Chanel skirt, Dua paired the jacket with low-slung, relaxed trousers, reinforcing the collection’s shift toward ease and gender-fluid tailoring. The result felt intentional, confident, and refreshingly undone, a Chanel suit reimagined for a new generation that values authority without rigidity.

Styled by Lorenzo Posocco, the set was sourced directly from Blazy’s debut Chanel collection, unveiled during Paris Fashion Week in October. While the runway look leaned into exaggerated styling, Dua and Posocco refined the presentation by skipping scrunched sleeves and swapping classic Chanel mules and the brand’s distorted flap bag for sleek high heels and a streamlined east-west shoulder bag.

The look continues Dua Lipa’s recent tailoring streak. Just last week in New York, she leaned fully into logomania with a head-to-toe Gucci monogram ensemble by Demna.