Ups And Downs: The Highs And Lows Of Paris Fashion Week

Ups And Downs: The Highs And Lows Of Paris Fashion Week

by Lucy Morris |
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In case you’re not aware, Paris Fashion Week just ended. Ripped jeans? Mini-skirts? Old news. The very nature of the bi-annual fashion week circus means that, in the immortal words of Heidi Klum, ‘one day you're in and the next you're out’. To keep you on top of what’s hot and what’s certainly not, here is your guide to Paris Fashion Week’s biggest news.

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Stranger Thing's Sadie Sink made her catwalk debut in Undercover. All hail the new Millie Bobby Brown!

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Paris Fashion Week Ups and Downs

This is layering, but not like you're familiar with. It requires countless coats and shirts buttoned on top of one another, much like Trump's crony Steve Banon became famous for. This is peak subversion.

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Paris Fashion Week Ups and Downs

Last season Kanye's collaborator Off-White designer Virgil Abloh said Princess Diana was his inspiration, this season he's popped Lilly Allen on his moldboard. How do we know? He spread the message on Instagram with a fitting picture of frothy tulle dresses and high-top sneakers. BRB, we're going to unearth our 2007 wardrobe.

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Blame it on the Oscars, but the front row has been a veritable desert. For obvious reasons the Kardashian-West's stay away from Paris Fashion Week, but many other celebrities have followed suit too.

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Paris Fashion Week Ups and Downs

The street style set has packed away their Stan Smiths and Van slip-ons for this season only to replace them with Frankenstein-like 'dad trainers'. With spongey soles and misshapen features they are so ugly they are actually fascinating.

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Paris Fashion Week Ups and Downs

First Kylie Jenner went M.I.A. for nine months only to return with newborn tot Stormi in tow, and now Kendall has gone to ground. The model has skipped fashion month (except for one brief appearance for adidas in NYC). Why? No one knows, but likely she just didn't fancy spending the whole of February living between the fashion capitals, spending hours and hours in fittings and then walking plank-like catwalk after catwalk. And, really who can blame her?

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