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At last it’s official, the most coveted job in has been filled: , formerly the creative director of Italian label Bottega Veneta, has been named the artistic director of , effective early next year. The 40-year-old, Paris-born designer will oversee creation of all haute couture, ready-to-wear and accessories collections for the house, which was founded by in 1913. Why is overseeing Chanel considered the plum position in global fashion? The brand remains a privately held company in a luxury industry that has experienced a merger mania in recent years. It’s also undeniably at the top of today’s respected houses: Gucci or Louis Vuitton may be hotter or buzzier with the public, but Chanel, which posted supremely healthy 2023 revenues of $19.7 billion, revels in its quiet reputation as the pinnacle of fashion, and that isn’t expected to change anytime soon. Chanel owners Alain and Gérard Wertheimer — whose grandfather, Pierre, went into business with Coco when he purchased 70 percent of her house in 1924 — also have steadfastly refused any notion of selling the brand, bringing on a partner or taking the brand public. The arrangement allows Blazy the freedom to create without having to keep one eye focused on the latest stock price. (If that attitude sounds mercenary, consider some 2022 headlines about shelved movies at Warner Bros.) “Matthieu Blazy is one of the most gifted designers of his generation,” said Chanel’s global executive chairman Alain Wertheimer and global CEO Leena Nair in a joint statement released Thursday. “His vision and talent will reinforce the energy of the brand and our position as a leader in luxury. Under Bruno Pavlovsky’s leadership, we are confident that Matthieu Blazy will continue to shape what’s next and write a new page in Chanel’s creation.” Blazy will report to Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel Fashion and subsidiary Chanel SAS, who likewise extolled the designer’s virtues on Thursday. “I am delighted to welcome Matthieu Blazy,” he said. “I am convinced that he will be able to play with the codes and heritage of the house, through an ongoing dialogue with the studio, our ateliers, and our maisons d’art. His audacious personality, his innovative and powerful approach to creation, as well as his dedication to craftsmanship and beautiful materials, will take Chanel in exciting new directions.” Corporate-speak aside, Blazy is a terrific choice who brings talent, pedigree and gravitas to his new position. His designs for Bottega Veneta undeniably elevated that brand’s visibility and perception among fashion fans and Hollywood alike, with a focus on handwork and a sense of modernity that’s also fluid and accessible. Then again, other than Bottega’s celebrated handbags, who aside than the most diligent students could pinpoint the codes of that house? Chanel will be a bigger stage with a brighter spotlight, and an audience that’s exceedingly well-versed in even the most minute details of its DNA. Yet Blazy, who graduated from La Cambre, a visual-arts school in Brussels, interned for Balenciaga and John Galliano, worked at Maison Margiela and later for Raf Simons at Calvin Klein and Phoebe Philo at Céline, seems more than up to the task. And while it may seem like a minor point, that Blazy was born and raised in Paris brings a wonderful symmetry and sense of that city’s heritage to his appointment. That detail never concerned the German-born Karl Lagerfeld, of course, but the man who oversaw Chanel between 1983 and his death in 2019 was too busy turning the house into the style juggernaut it is today to be concerned about whether his own heritage mattered. Blazy’s predecessor, Virginia Viard, who was Lagerfeld’s studio director before being named his successor, which ended with her departure in early June, was born in Lyon and likewise brought her own French sensibility to the house. Blazy now presents an opportunity for a reset, as a Parisian man at the Parisian house with a reputation and name recognition unlike any other. Of course, these days, does it matter that Blazy is, indeed, a man? It’s unquestionable that the fashion industry overall is facing a dearth of women designers in high-profile roles. That’s a problem that requires a deeper and wider conversation to solve. Chanel’s focus clearly was on the best person for the job, and as someone lucky enough to have interviewed Lagerfeld on several occasions, I can picture him scoffing at the idea that a man shouldn’t helm a house built by a woman. Blazy’s personal and artistic sensibilities also make it clear that, like Lagerfeld and Viard, he will honor the ideas that trailblazing, feminist women made both famous and acceptable for women of the early 20th century. Perhaps most delightfully for Hollywood — which increasingly values red-carpet appearances — Blazy already has established himself as an industry favorite, and surely that will carry over to his new gig. A brief and incomplete rundown of stars Blazy has created red-carpet looks for recently: Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Yeoh, Elle Fanning, Jennifer Lawrence, Pamela Anderson, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, Pedro Pascal, Nicholas Hoult and Jacob Elordi, who stars in Bottega Veneta’s latest campaign — and that list only covers the dressing announcements between October and early December. The latter section of the list also raises another key question: Might Blazy expand the availability of menswear at Chanel? The brand rarely has extended that category beyond one-off looks for Pharrell Williams and a select few others, but Blazy’s talent likewise presents opportunities to play in that arena. And now we’re off to the races, from an attention point of view. The take place Sunday, Jan. 5; the Critics Choice Awards are set for exactly one week later; and Week for the Spring 2025 haute-couture collections is scheduled for Jan. 27-30. When will we see Blazy’s first Chanel design, and will it be on the runway or on a Hollywood star? Those questions will be answered exactly when the house decides, of course, but the anticipation will be at a level unlike any other recent fashion appointments. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood ReporterEastside Distilling CEO of Subsidiary Buys $36,749 in StockFor “Hysteria!” actresses Anna Camp and Julie Bowen, horror is harder than comedy. “Horror is really hard actually because there is a fine line you have to walk; you have to make it feel grounded and you’re put in these extreme circumstances: You’re being possessed or pulled through the air, there’s nothing you can do to relate to that,” explained Camp of “Pitch Perfect” fame. “With comedy, you can have a relatable situation and go, ‘I’ve been in situations like that.’ There’s nothing you can compare (horror) to, so you have to use your imagination. I find it harder. Your imagination goes home with you at the end of the day. You’re still thinking crazy thoughts.” Bowen, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on “Modern Family,” agreed. “Comedy’s pretty binary because it’s like either you can make people laugh or you don’t. I can’t watch horror. I’m terrified, terrified! I am the easiest scare in the world, so as far as doing (horror), I want to make it as real as possible. It was hard because I had to be really, really crazy. There were times when I’d get back to my hotel room at 3 a.m., I didn’t want to be alone in my head,” said Bowen, laughing. Camp, Bowen, Royal Oak native Bruce Campbell (“Evil Dead”), showrunner David A. Goodman (“Futurama”), and Ypsilanti native/creator Matthew Scott Kane (“American Horror Story”) were promoting “Hysteria!” at the New York Comic Con in October. The horror series is streaming on Peacock. Set in the fictional Michigan town of Happy Hollow, the first episode of “Hysteria” begins with a popular quarterback’s disappearance and a pentagram is discovered on a garage door. As a result, rumors of the occult and satanic influence run rampant through the town. A trio of outcasts in a heavy metal band called Dethkrunch exploit this by rebranding themselves as a satanic metal band, which leads to them becoming the targets of the town’s witch hunt. “Something on my mind a lot in 2019 was we’re living in this post-factual age with social media. It seemed like decades and decades ago, you could trust the news. Now everything is in question. When lies end up getting disseminated as truth, that starts to warp people’s version of reality. Suddenly, they’re living in a world other people are not. That was going on in the world I was living in and I very quickly connected it to the 1980s satanic panic. It’s not really that different because people were saying Ozzy Osbourne, Jason Voorhees (of ‘Friday the 13th’), and the Smurfs were going to turn your kids into satanists and kill you in your sleep. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t true, but so many people got worked up into such a fervor over it, bad things happened. ... It was smoke without fire,” Kane said. “Disinformation is not new,” Campbell said. “Disinformation will tear a town apart.” Campbell portrays Happy Hollow Police Chief Ben Dandridge. “This guy’s a reasonable cop; he’s a rational person who doesn’t treat the teenagers like they’re idiots. It’s all very refreshing,” he said. “I want to play that guy again. I want cops to be that guy. I’m playing the cop (that) cops need to be. That’s my whole motivation for playing this guy: How would you like cops to be, especially the guy in charge, the chief of police? They’re lucky to have Chief Dandridge.” “It was truly an exciting moment when Bruce signed on,” Goodman said. By the end of the first episode, a supernatural phenomenon happens to Linda Campbell, played by Bowen. “Linda seems like one thing, then you realize she’s bananas. She’s either bananas or she’s possessed. Either way, it’s a complicated thing to play,” Bowen said. “With Julie, you can have your cake and eat it too,” Kane said. “She’s this fun, quirky mom. ... As the episode goes on, she’s pulled deeper into this thing and crazy stuff starts happening. That final act of the first episode was my favorite moment with her because this announced that this is not Claire Dunphy. We’re not doing that again; we’re pushing her as a performer. “Julie was so excited about doing stunts. She told us on many occasions she’s very sturdy and can take it. The same goes for Bruce and for Anna. We didn’t ask anyone to give us a flavor of the thing they did before. We cast people we loved so much (in their famous projects) that we wanted to give them the opportunity to do the exact opposite.” Added Bowen: “I got this script and was like, ‘Oh great. She’s a mom. How fun.’ I love moms. I’m a mom, but I felt this was not worth flying out of town to Georgia and being away from my kids. Then I got to the end of the pilot and was like, ‘She’s crazy!’ Is she possessed? There’s a lot more questions. It’s fun to just stretch again and do things I haven’t done in a while, which I found really exciting.” Kane said he felt lucky Bowen signed on at the beginning. “She was the first adult actor to sign on. That gave us such credibility to have a two-time Emmy-winning actor leading this show. Suddenly, it goes from this script from a relatively unknown writer into the new Julie Bowen show,” he said. It was the quality of the writing that attracted Camp, Bowen and Campbell to “Hysteria!” “I loved the script; it was incredibly well-written. It was immersed in the time period. It was such a good coming-of-age story, too — the feeling of being in high school again, being in the 1980s,” Camp said. “I talked to Matt who said my character (Tracy) was incredibly pivotal to the series and we’ll learn about why she is the way she is. So I was like, ‘I’d love to do this!’” For Campbell, the writing is everything. “A lot of times, I’ll get a script that could make the words interchangeable with every other character because the writing is very bland and just doesn’t have the detail you need. This was different. Every character was pretty distinct and pretty well-drawn,” he said. “It’s quality. It’s not a (expletive) show. It’s a real show that’s playing around with interesting themes. A lot of it is still relevant to this day.” “Hysteria!” has other Michigan connections, including University of Michigan alumnus Jonathan Goldstein (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and Dondero High School alumnus Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island”), who both serve as executive producers. Kane explained why he set “Hysteria!” in Michigan. “You write what you know. I grew up in Ypsilanti, so that had a lot to do with it. More importantly, when you’re in a small town in the Midwest — somewhere like Michigan — these things don’t ever happen and word spreads fast and paranoia spreads quickly and (everything’s) blown out of proportion and takes up a lot of people’s minds,” he said. “Whether or not something is real doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if there are people willing to believe it does and willing it into the world. What does it matter if it’s objectively real or living rent-free in someone’s head?”

Okanagan MLAs express concern with removal of religious sign from nativity sceneSingapore lose 2-0 to Vietnam after VAR mayhemOfficials at Alabama A&M on Wednesday announced the death of football player Medrick Burnett Jr in a statement that has since been deleted from the school’s website. His family has told WFAF that the athlete remains alive in hospital. The 20-year-old suffered a head injury during a game four weeks ago, officials at the HBCU said. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “When the time comes, we will issue a statement about what we have been through,” Burnett Jr’s mother, Denise Burnett, told the station. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon after its online announcement about Burnett’s death was deleted. Burnett’s family could not immediately be reached for comment by NBC News. The redshirt freshman linebacker was hurt October 26 when the Bulldogs took on rival Alabama State in an annual gridiron contest known as the Magic City Classic, pitting that state’s biggest and most well-known HBCUs against each other. Burnett played in seven games this season after transferring to Alabama A&M from Grambling. Burnett’s best game came on September 21 when he recorded three tackles at Austin Peay. “Our Bulldog family is heartbroken by the loss of Medrick Burnett Jr,” Alabama A&M Director of Athletics Paul Bryant said in the since-deleted statement. “Medrick was more than an exceptional athlete; he was a remarkable young man whose positive energy, leadership, and compassion left an indelible mark on everyone who knew him. “While words cannot adequately express our grief, we are humbled by the strength of his family, who stood by his side throughout this unimaginable ordeal.” Burnett graduated from Mayfair High School in Lakewood, California, just outside Los Angeles. “We pray for his family and teammates at this incredibly difficult time,” Mayfair HS said in statement . Alabama A&M, which is 6-5 overall and 4-3 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) action, has one more game this season, this week against Florida A&M in Tallahassee.

Residents of two Jersey City apartment buildings have been left out in the cold for the Christmas holiday. According to tenants in 35 Kensington and 150 Belmont avenues, after months of intermittent service outages, heat and hot water went down in both rent-controlled buildings, just in time for Christmas. Plumbers brought in by the city to make emergency repairs at 35 Kensington Ave. provided only temporary relief. This morning, tenant Kate Lamar said, “It’s really really bad ...the fire department came last night and shut everything off since our radiators started leaking ...the hot water pipe exploded in the basement over the Christmas cold spell.” The situation at 150 Belmont Ave. appears to be little better. Tenant Colin Devries reported today that the heat was still off. “Major Scrooge of a landlord we have,” he wrote in an email. “Two weeks ago, when temperatures reached 28 degrees, our building didn’t have any hot water,” he added. Tenants lay blame at the feet of Amir Ben-Yohanan, “CEO and owner” of West of Hudson Properties LLC , which manages the two buildings. The company shares an address with the limited liability companies that own both buildings. The problems at 35 Kensington are longstanding, according to the city-hired plumbers. “They said that it wasn’t maintained for many years...the water situation has to be addressed since we need a new water pump,” said Lamar. For most of 2024, tenants say, they lacked a working elevator and dealt with severe water damage, roaches, and broken appliances. Said tenant Richard Fuentes, “They put in a new boiler but nobody cleaned the pipes, nobody bled the boiler in 15 years.” “We are looking for a pro bono lawyer because we want to get the building under our own maintenance,” said Lamar. The tenants note that 35 Kensington Ave. currently has no superintendent, in violation of the Jersey City Municipal Code. Tenants say they will begin withholding rent on January 1. Inspectors from Jersey City’s Quality of Life Taskforce have, reportedly, issued citations to the landlords carrying a potential fine of $2,000 per day. On December 21, Jersey City offered tenants temporary housing at local hotels. Tenants speculate that Ben-Yohanan is trying to force them out so the buildings can be converted into condominiums. Ben-Yohanan has been the object of the public’s ire before. In 2020, he founded the influencer management company, Clubhouse Media Group. According to a 2021 Daily Mail report, “CMG offers young influencers the opportunity to stay rent-free at so-called ‘content mansions’ in Los Angeles , Las Vegas and Europe in exchange for creating branded social media content.” The influencers, who were as young as 15, say he bullied them, forced them to go on dates, and made misogynistic comments about their periods. According to a Business Insider , Ben-Yohanan then sued the girls for defamation. A call to Ben-Yohanan seeking comment was not returned. Jersey City’s spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. Said Devries, “Something needs to be done to truly hold these landlords accountable.”President of Uzbekistan participates in an informal meeting of the CIS heads of state

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Nebraska has landed one of its most high-profile transfers of the portal era in a former five-star prospect who fills an immediate team need. Ex-Missouri defensive end Williams Nwaneri committed to the Huskers on Thursday afternoon after entering the portal earlier that morning. He has four years of eligibility remaining after redshirting his first college season — he appeared in four games and logged 38 defensive snaps and two tackles this fall. The 6-foot-7, 255-pounder from the Kansas City area held offers from most top schools in college football as the nation’s No. 1 edge rusher in the 2024 class. Nebraska’s connection begins with senior football assistant Jamar Mozee, who was Nwaneri’s high school coach at Lee’s Summit North. Mozee convinced the teenager to play football as a freshman and his stock soared soon after while playing for one of the area’s top programs. Nwaneri as a prep senior logged 50 tackles (13 for loss) in 11 games with 23 quarterback hurries and three forced fumbles. Mozee — who once went through the recruiting process as a K.C. high-school star running back and was part of Oklahoma’s 2000 national-title team — served as one of Nwaneri’s central advisors during his recruitment. Georgia and Oklahoma were the prospect’s other finalists then. Being close to home and an extensive family of supporters was key in his evaluation. “I feel like he wasn’t biased in any way,” Nwaneri said of Mozee a year ago when he signed with Missouri. “He was coming from a place of caring about me. I thank him a lot.” Mozee celebrated with Nwaneri at the time before leaving to join UCF in February 2024 as an off-field staffer. Nebraska coach Matt Rhule hired Mozee in July. At Nwaneri’s signing ceremony last year, Mozee said the player had “pro talent” he flashed daily. “You’ve got to be careful to say that as a high school coach but there’s just not many kids like him, just being honest,” Mozee said. “Physically, the way he’s made, the way he’s built. He’s different than everybody I’ve ever seen.” Nwaneri also played multiple seasons at Lee’s Summit North with incoming Nebraska receiver Isaiah Mozee, Jamar’s son. The younger Mozee has said he leaned on Nwaneri at times during his own recruiting process that included navigating 40-plus offers. Nwaneri drew national headlines as a prep senior when the state of Missouri passed a law allowing high schoolers to earn name-image-likeness benefits once they’ve signed with a school. The legislation applies only to Missouri residents. Rhule this month praised Nebraska’s formidable financial resources made available through its 1890 collective and what’s coming with revenue sharing. It allows the Huskers to be competitive with anyone for any player, he said. That includes Nwaneri, who arrives as the Huskers reset their defensive line with a new position coach and different starters for the entire front. “We are officially now a ‘have,’” Rhule said. “We’re going to have more (resources) than most people in college football.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!Rams QB Matthew Stafford riding another December hot streak