How To Make Daring Fashion Wearable, a Lesson from the Streets of Paris Fashion Week
As always, balance is the key.

Bonjour! Paris is the last stop on the Fashion Month train, and the attendees pulled out all the stops, style-wise. This season served as a lesson in making daring, adventurous, personal fashion wearable. There are many sartorial aspects to play with when assembling an ensemble: color, texture, proportion, pattern, and formality, to name a few. At Paris, attendees demonstrated how to make a statement by emphasizing one or two of these elements at a time. They balanced classic silhouettes, like a pleated skirt and sweater vest, with bold, punky colors and prints, and spiced up more neutral-toned looks with exaggerated proportions. Case in point: a casual black and white look featured an oversized fuzzy sweater, and an attendee wearing a cream, tailored set also sported chunky sneakers. Here, we’ve gathered 12 looks that exemplify this principle and just might inspire you to experiment with these elements in your wardrobe this autumn.
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