How to Wear: FW26 Paris Fashion Week
Reporting live from the City of Lights
Ah, Paris. The city of lights, of love and of the trends you’ll want to be wearing in the months to come. This season, arrondissements sidewalks and high-fashion catwalks alike lit up with the strength of juxtaposition, where sartorial classics you know and adore meet a rich tapestry of textures and silhouettes you’ll get to know, and get to adore.
Here are the trends to know by heart.
Sharpen Up
Everyone knows a power suit. But are you bold enough to make this silhouette yours? Get down to business in a smart, precisely tailored two-piece and make a statement: in and out of the boardroom.
Shirt Happens
Chances are, you already have multitudes of this sartorial workhorse. But what’s at least one more? The humble shirt returns this FW26 in guises aplenty: from the starched and the structured to the sinuous and the spartan – and all chameleonic enough to transform from one style to the next, to the next.
Oh, Lighten Up
Breezy linens and chiffon silks need not be relegated into spring-summer wardrobes. In fact, make it a rule: layer in your airiest sheers the cooler the temperatures get for an effortless body-grazing drape that wears so very easily under hefty winter coats.
Skirting the Issue
Why not build your ensembles from the ankles up? From crisp box-pleating to gossamer layers that skim past each forward step, there’s no skirt unwelcome this season.
Big in Paris
Accessories are no after-thought and, as the adage goes: go big, or go home. Play up the over-the-top earrings, the belts that span the length of your torso, and the sculptural purses that stand in as art pieces: these will make a simple outfit not quite so.
Say ‘oui’ to these new-in essentials