i looked at every single PFW look so you don't have to

never beating the addictive personality allegations

For the life of me I can’t finish a TV show, most books, or any project that I start (cue my 50+ Substack drafts). However, when it comes to looking at clothes, I’m a completist. If I’m surfing a brand’s website, I have to look through every page of items. And apparently, the same goes for looking at Paris Fashion Week looks.

I’m no high fashion expert. In fact, I only recently learned that you can look at runway show pics online. But hey, I fully committed to the bit ok? So you gotta give me some credit.

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Favorites

1. Everything Chloé, because duh, but especially the asymmetrical shell earrings featured in looks 32, 37, 44, and 47. Dries Van Noten also featured many asym earrings, but Chloé did it in a quirky, glam mermaid way that simply speaks to my eternally girly soul.

   

   the styling and the shoes as well!! P.S. this shoe silhouette was all over PFW

   

   Next thing you know, we’ll be wearing starfish earrings

   Aquamarine : [about wearing starfish for earrings]  “They literally give me compliments - in my ear… Starfish are notorious suck-ups.”

   

   yup keep feeding me this shit, i’m eating it up. i’ll be the starfish hanging off Chemena Kamali’s ears.

2. While we’re on the topic of exceptionally cool mermaids, let’s talk about Look 5 from Florentina Leitner. It gave Ariel but like, way better than Coperni’s overtly mermaid take. I love everything about this look.

   1. Firstly, the headband with icy water droplets trickling down the model’s flames of hair is gorgeous. I need one ASAP!

   2. Secondly, I am a bow-truther and love the tunic’s delicate combination of ribbon and tulle. PSA for all the bow haters out there: bows were all over PFW— they’re not going anywhere anytime soon.

   3. Thirdly, the color combo is immaculate. The red hair + seafoam dress + ambiguously dark pants + chunky silver shoes is *chef’s kiss”.

      

      Florentina Leitner Look 5

      VS.

      

      Coperni Look 48

3. The entire Sacai show, despite my never having heard of Sacai before. It was simple and preppy but with a girlish twist. The collection had everything I hold near and dear: fluffy things, bows, and knee high boots. Moreover, Sacai made these traditionally cutesy elements look sleek and elegant.

   

   Look 1—

   Ever since Massie Block graced the hallways of OCD middle school, I’ve loved a double breasted mini skirt/dress moment.

   

   the Clique is the REAL reason I love prep

Look 6. I love the collar and ruffled skirt peeking through the blazer.

Look 7. The fluffy shoes 😍 The giant bow on the butt 😍 and it’s sooo clean 😍

Look 29, or as i call it: the glamorous eyeshadow brush. Another fav.

4. This bug looking thing from Courrèges. The hoof-esque footwear is an added bonus. After reading additional coverage of PFW, apparently this show was inspired by a mobius strip. We love nerdy fashion, so double bonus!

Look 13

5. Paradis has alerted me to the fact that I need an oversized, cursive, monogram belt buckle

   

   Look 3

6. and YSL has given me a glorious new jewel tone color palette to draw inspiration from.

   

   Look 27

   7. These stuffed animal, Jeff Koons looking, arm-hugging purses from Maison Mihara Yasuhiro. It’s creative and of the moment, yet also sentimental. These literal “clutches” remind me of the currently trendy arm cuff over too-long-sleeves. They also remind me of how my stuffed animals might cling to me should they gain consciousness.

   

   Look 37

   8. I’ve seen a lot of people shitting on the Valentino show, but TBH some of their looks were my favorites of the entire season.

   

   Look 69 is gorgeous and I would 100% wear it to the Hogwarts Yule Ball

   

   then I’d throw on Look 34 for the evening, after returning to the Slytherin common room. Very Blair Waldorf.

   

   Look 84. THIS COLOR COMBO!!!

   

   Look 48 reminds me of a nerdy kid I’d befriend in elementary school. Also, the bug-eyed glasses + bug-eyed deer broach are an endearing motif.

   
   9. Gloves are all over the runway for PFW but Lutz Huelle did it best. I love how the models’ hands literally look coated in sparkles, seamlessly blending intro her gown.

   

   Look 10

7. Of course I wouldn’t be me if I left out this lovely bow and headband moment from Celine.

   

   Look 13

8. Hoop skirts/dresses were BIG this season, as were garments constructed to look wind blown. Loewe’s were most prominent, but my favorite was from Caroline Hú.

   

   Look 8 AKA fruit ninja incarnate

PFW but it’s a Rorschach test

I’m going to leave you with some associations that popped into my head as my brain attempted to process the hundreds of looks from Paris Fashion Week.

Anrealage = Pokémon

Chloé = 2012 Weheartit core. Screenshots courtesy of my 7th grade iPod touch.

Alexander McQueen = the Warblers from Glee

Uma Wang = my baby blankie “Coogie”

Misc notes:

• We’re still in the girl-ification of everything era. Lace, bows, and chintz abound.

• Everyone who’s not girlbossing is deconstructing, reconstructing, and wearing things not as they’re meant to be worn. Personally, I gravitate more towards things I would actually wear so the conceptual, architectural stuff is not my cup of tea. I also find the anti-functional fixedness movement gives slight ‘I’m not like other girls’ vibes.

  

  we get it, you’re subversive

and of course, per this week’s earlier post

YSL = Clark Kent

Phew, that was a lot. I saw something earlier today about Summer 2025 looks being shown soon and idk how y’all in the fashion industry do it. I’m pooped.

xx audrey