A Paris Dispatch ~ Fashion & Style

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CHLOE MALLE

HEAD OF EDITORIAL CONTENT, VOGUE U.S.

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Bonjour from Paris! After the whirlwind that was Milan, just three days in Paris has made Kate Moss's Gucci thong feel like it was months ago. But the weather is gorgeous and all I want to do is sit on the chairs in the Tuileries and Luxembourg gardens that Dior sent miniatures of as their show invite.

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Creative directors and Teen Vogue cover stars

We love to see designers coming out to support one another—and especially the chivalry of a creative director inviting his predecessor to sit front row, as Demna did with Alessandro Michele at his highly anticipated—and then much-discussed—Gucci show. (I hear Demna also invited Tom Ford, who couldn't attend as he was filming his next movie.) Elsewhere, it was a delight to see Pharrell Williams bopping his head along approvingly in the Dior greenhouse; and most touchingly, at the 9 p.m. Alaïa show—Pieter Mulier's last at the house before moving on to Versace—Raf Simons and Matthieu Blazy were squeezed together like boarding school boys at an assembly, so happy to cheer on their friend and longtime colleague. Raf even stood on the bench for the standing ovation at the end.

A British colleague made me laugh when she described the Gucci show as the Marmite of the season: whether you loved it or hated it, you definitely had a strong opinion! One thing that was indisputable, however, was the freshness and variety of the casting, which included everyone from Kate Moss to a Calgary football player to Vivian Wilson, the 21-year-old model, language student, and former Teen Vogue cover star whose exquisite blonde locks would captivate my Rapunzel-obsessed four-year-old. We immediately invited Vivian on The Run-Through and it was a joy: she is forthright, thoughtful, and funny, and we chatted about everything from GLP-1s in the modeling industry to her first fashion memory and the dissonance of attending fashion week at the beginning of a regional war. Listen to the pod here!

I am so in awe of my Teen Vogue colleagues, who told me immediately after Alysa Liu won Olympic gold in figure skating that they were reaching out about an emergency cover. I loved their vision for the shoot, which really portrayed Liu in a new way and felt in keeping with her personality. Olympic hardware aside, she's like any 20-year-old; as Liu told Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue's intrepid digital director, "I pick hanging out with my friends over a session, and if that makes me a worse skater, so be it."

PLACES

For a chic coffee, supercharged workout, and sweet treats

Vogue Cafés!
It was such a treat to peel off after Gucci and stop by the Vogue Café in Milan's Chinatown neighborhood. The Vogue Italia team worked so hard to put it together, and it was so charming to have it at the same studio where Matthieu Blazy once had the Bottega Veneta pottery made! I'm still sad I didn't make it to British Vogue's café in Holborn, with its gorgeous bouquets of dahlias for sale.

In Paris, on the Rue de Castiglione, the Vogue France team transformed a raw space into what looks, frankly, a lot like Anna Wintour's office! Anna got involved in the design herself, enlisting architect Bastien Halard to source Chinoiserie screens and a bistro table from the Clignancourt flea market, and it looks fabulous. (I grabbed a few Vogue postcards to send to my kids as well.) On Wednesday, I joined Claire Thomson-Jonville and Chioma Nnadi there for a tea hosted with Burberry.

Alo Oasis
Alo has decamped to Paris Fashion Week for the second season in a row, setting up the Alo Oasis in the Haute Couture Suite of the Plaza Athénée. I tried Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) with them, which involves a vest that uses electrical impulses to contract your muscles so that a 20-minute workout achieves the impact of a 90-minute one. (I liked it in part because it made me feel like Lara Croft.) But there were other offerings, too; the Alo team told me they administered 50 immunity-boosting IV drips to various depleted editors, models, and influencers on Wednesday.

Milanese Jewels!
Martina Mondadori always has the most exquisite jewelry, so I listened when she recommended I visit Pennisi, the antique jeweler on Via Alessandro Manzoni. They had an amazing enamel earring and necklace set with a dog on it that I really thought about walking out with but I restrained myself. I also loved the jeweled hair pins.

I did invest in some chocolate gems, though, stocking up on a variety of foil-wrapped and malted Easter eggs from Pasticceria Marchesi.

THINGS

Bold shoes, fashion week flowers, and spring shopping

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Shoes With Main-Character Energy
I love the story in our Spring issue shot by Lukas Wassmann and styled by Max Ortega. It captures one of the trends I was most excited by last fall: so many designers sent wild shoes down the runway that felt like the entire outfit depended on them. To accompany the shoot, Tariro Makoni wrote a delightful piece about dressing shoe-first that has certainly led me to rethink my footwear strategy. For example, I have always been philosophically opposed to designer sneakers but the fire-engine red, velvet-trimmed ones at Celine are slowly eroding my stance.

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Fashion Week Fruits and Flowers!
Upon exiting The Row's fall 2026 show, guests were offered small boxes with eight blackberries or cherries in them, each in its own candy paper shell. They were exquisite, as The Row snacks always are; in fact, we compiled a brief history of them!

This fashion week has also been full of flowers. Some of my favorites, in a non-hierarchical list: the water lilies at Dior, both in the pond of the Tuileries as well as on the shoes, brooches, and purses coming down the runway; the aubergine anthuriums jutting out of the purses at Tom Ford; the still-life-esque mass of poppies and anemones at the Givenchy showroom; the butter-colored tulips flopping at The Row; and the hyper-pixelated and romantically embroidered florals at the gorgeous Dries Van Noten show.

Spring Trends
The weather in Paris is spectacular, especially after the tundra that has been New York City the last two months. It also makes me ready for spring clothes, and seeing the new collections appear in store windows only exacerbates that! The Vogue shopping team produced a fabulous shoot with the editors' favorite trends of the season and hero items. (I chose a romantic statement jacket: a particularly beautiful rose-printed leather piece from Erdem that felt like Wuthering Heights method dressing.)

We've also just announced the second Vogue Vintage Market, hosted this year by Doja Cat, which is happening on March 28 (with thanks to eBay). Get your tickets on the Vogue app here!