by Okunola Oluwaseyi
Spring in Paris is usually about romance, but this year, fashion week came with rebellion. The city’s street style took its cues from the classics and gave them a modern twist.
There were trench coats reimagined in patent leather, ballet flats worn with utilitarian cargo skirts, and pearls layered with punk chains. The looks were unmistakably French, but refreshingly unpredictable.
Many attendees leaned into nostalgia, more of the 2000s as low-rise jeans made an unapologetic return, paired with minimalist tanks or cropped blazers.
Others channeled couture glamour with dramatic draping, sheer textures, and bursts of scarlet or sapphire. But the thread tying it all together was balance, the balance between past and present, polish and rebellion, fantasy and function.
“Paris has this magic where you can wear anything, and it feels intentional,” said one fashion stylist outside the Chloé show. “It’s not about perfection anymore, it’s about personality.”
This season, Paris proved once again that true style lives between runway and reality, and the streets, not the catwalks, remain fashion’s most honest mirror as even the biggest brands took us through a journey of their iconic looks while adding the new street mix into it. It was MAGIC
