Tyla’s relationship with fashion has always been instinctive rather than ornamental. She doesn’t simply wear clothes, she interprets them. So when the South African hitmaker took the stage on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform her new single, fittingly titled “Chanel,” her outfit felt less like styling and more like a moment of fashion alignment.
For the performance, Tyla wore a full skirt suit from Matthieu Blazy’s debut spring 2026 collection for Chanel, marking her first official outing in the house’s new creative era. It was a significant choice. Blazy’s Chanel is still in its early chapters, and Tyla; young, global, and culturally fluent represents exactly the kind of modern woman the maison is now courting.
Styled by Ron Hartleben, the look was reworked with Tyla’s signature ease and sensuality. The open-knit tweed skirt was slung low on the waist, revealing the waistband of her black briefs beneath a deliberate subversion of Chanel’s prim codes. The layered tweed blouse shown on the runway was replaced with a black bra, while the matching cardigan slipped off her shoulders with studied nonchalance. Jewelry did the rest of the talking: pearl strands mingled with beaded waist chains, blurring the line between classic and contemporary. A towering red stiletto used as a stage prop added theatrical punctuation.
Though this marks Tyla’s first time wearing Blazy’s Chanel, she is no newcomer to the house’s history. For the “Chanel” music video, Hartleben sourced archival Karl Lagerfeld designs from the 1990s through the mid-2010s—grail-level pieces that positioned Tyla not just as a muse, but as a student of fashion lineage.
“I’ve been wanting to put Tyla in Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel for some time,” Hartleben told W, “we had just been waiting for the right moment for maximum impact.” Chanel, he added, was fully supportive of allowing Tyla to reinterpret the modern tweed suit on her own terms, an openness that signals the house’s evolving dialogue with youth culture.