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EDITOR’S NOTE:  A version of this feature ran in the Big Style newsletter — a weekly portal into a world where clothing meets culture. Sign up here. Paris —  My official business in Paris this week was to attend the haute couture shows, but throughout my time in the French capital I kept bumping into art. This is unsurprising in a city where you can’t walk more than a few yards before being drawn into a gallery or museum, but art was also woven into many of the collections. Fashion and the art world have long been bedfellows, and haute couture…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. How many times can one celebrate the sartorial prowess of Zendaya? If this week’s global press tour for the upcoming Christopher Nolan epic “The Odyssey” proves anything, it’s that the actor and all-around fashion muse is fully committed to the cause of glamour. The 29-year-old is the physical manifestation of the phrase too much fashion. She treats a ten-minute red carpet appearance with as much intensity and painstaking detail…

As Wimbledon began this week, Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka made an entrance in the high style that has become her signature: an elaborate robe by Tokyo-based designer Hana Yagi, made from vintage kimonos and bridal gowns, over a white Nike tennis dress. The designer said the one-two look was a marker of the almost sacred ceremony of preparing for competition, which is shed to reveal the game-ready gear. “I wanted the garment to exist as the moment before performance,” Yagi told Vogue. “The walk-on surrounds Naomi in ceremony, while the Nike kit represents the athlete in competition. I thought…

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland is used to attention. He’s six foot five inches with shoulder-length blonde hair that loudly gestures towards his Viking pedigree. He is also among the best soccer players in the world and has led his country’s men’s team to its first FIFA World Cup appearance in nearly three decades. But a couple of weeks ago, stylist and TikToker Jack Savoie pointed to something else Haaland is known for: his collection of Hermès bags. “Have you seen Erling Haaland’s custom Birkins?” Savoie said in a video that quickly went viral. “Baby, buckle up.” “OK the first thing…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Paris —  During a suffocating heatwave that took hold of countries across Europe last week, temperatures in Paris hit dangerously high levels — closing landmarks, breaking trains and driving up a heat-related death toll. Still, a surprising number of attendees at the city’s bi-annual Men’s Fashion Week proved their commitment to a look and arrived in mind-boggling layers: funnel-neck jackets, jeans, even a fur shawl. Professionally styled celebrities, models and servers perhaps fared the worst in the historic heatwave, wearing what had…

Soccer jerseys! Who doesn’t have one? Olivia Rodrigo partnered with Spotify for a now sold-out throwback FC Barcelona jersey stamped with her bubbly monogram over the red and blue vertical stripes. The Gap has two limited-edition summer collections featuring jerseys inspired by “football culture,” while Nike has two collections of Latin American-themed “statement” jerseys “rooted in the culture and emotion of the game.” Also some people are wearing jerseys to play soccer in stadiums. Many of these proliferating jerseys are not meant to be replicas of the game gear worn by favorite athletes. Instead, their designs either nod to official…

Paris —  EDITOR’S NOTE:  CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Fashion designer Willy Chavarria ranks well against all the typical measures of success within the fashion industry: he has a dedicated celebrity client roster, hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers, partnerships with global stockists and he’s launched collaborations with mainstream brands like Adidas, Zara and just teased another with Ugg. But he’s also built a village, a community as they say in the biz, of people who root for him — outside of simply buying his clothes — and he’ll…

Recently, it seems one thing — or pair of things, with ten digits — has occupied the minds of fashion designers more than anything else: our feet. This week, at the men’s Summer 2027 Saint Laurent show in Paris, creative director Anthony Vaccarello showed a collection of quiet perversity disrupted by a starling pair of foot-baring shoes. A lovely slate blue suit, with fluid trousers and a boxy, 80s-inspired jacket that would make any Bret Easton Ellis antihero proud, ended with a deviant surprise: a pair of clear vinyl oxfords. The French capital is in the midst of a heat…

It’s never easy for pop stars to introduce their next era. If they cling too closely to what has been done in the past, critics may grumble over a lack of innovation. If they veer too far from what fans know and expect, they risk losing the base that gave them a platform in the first place. For Olivia Rodrigo, the new “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl so in Love” era has mostly relied on — as she sings in the lead single, “drop dead” — her own feminine intuition. The 23-year-old’s third studio album, released this month,…

Milan, Italy —  At the recent Milan Men’s Fashion Week, dainty little details were everywhere — reminding us that styling is how you really have fun with fashion. The riot of small-scale design flourishes seen across the Spring-Summer 2027 shows — from pins and corsages to feather boas and arm garters — means you can expect men to be more decorated than usual next summer. Before the events in Milan kicked off, the Irish designer Simone Rocha set the mood at her first ever menswear show at Pitti Uomo, the biannual Italian trade show for men’s clothing in Florence, with a…