Fashion Style Paris

What is the style in the City of Light and what do fashionable French wear in Paris? When you look what people wear in this city, you will notice that there is a variety in style and clothing, but this fashion is forwarded and renowned.  When you think of French fashion you think of Chanel, Hermes, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton.

In the early ages fashion in a cosmopolitan city as Paris was of a great importance. It was a driving force of feminism and women had a lot of pleasure to wear different styles and beautiful wardrobe in different colors and materials. Every outfit had an essential roll in the way the women represented themselves.
In the 1920s the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel marked fashion and became an important designer in 20-th century fashion. She changed fashion because of her modern touch, fashion that was inspired by menswear and expensive, simple and comfort touch in outfits. Coco Chanel has marked fashion with her extraordinary influence and has become famous with the “legendary suits” and the “little black dress”. Nowadays French fashion is also rich with designers for example Jean-Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix. They create fashion with extravagant characteristics. You can think of specific, unique mens bracelets to create an exclusive, unique creation. When you think of fashion in Paris, you think of “haut couture”, what means “high dressmaking” and is a creation of special custom made clothing, made of a high quality fabric. Haut couture can be linked to designers as Chanel, Dior, Lacroix and Gaultier.

Also the average Parisian men pay attention to their style and find exclusive and stylish detail very important and therefore you can characterize this style as “metrosexual”. Men and women in Paris dress their outfits up with details as scarves, necklaces and mens bracelets.  With their basics in clothing they make a statement with these stylish accessories.