{"id":40818,"date":"2026-06-24T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/40818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:24:09","slug":"some-like-it-hot-one-editors-ode-to-the-paris-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/40818\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Like It Hot: One Editor\u2019s Ode to the Paris Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Saint Laurent to Louis Vuitton<\/a>, the talk of the first day of men\u2019s Fashion Week<\/a> in Paris turned inevitably to the weather. No, not the usual idle front-row niceties, but the scorching heat wave that has settled like a dense cloud over the City of Lights. Temperatures soared to just shy of 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, the first full day of shows here. And worse, there was no relief in sight\u2014just endless days of blazing sun, record-breaking temperatures, and continued weather warnings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHorrific,\u201d is how the British editor and stylist Dan May put it, noting that he had to stop into a local Cos while there to pick up some shorts to help combat the dreadful state of meteorological affairs. Or, as my friend, the content creator Jake Woolf, so charmingly described it: \u201cA nightmare from hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Paris heat wave was so intense that Dior and Rick Owens had to move their shows<\/a> earlier to avoid the midday temps. Grown men carried around whirring little electric fans in an attempt to stir up the stifling warm air. And, most telling of all, some showgoing dandies had to dress down\u2014way down, to filmy t-shirts and linen shorts\u2014in lieu of their usual ornate peacockery. To make matters worse, Paris is a city known for many wonderful things, but air conditioning is not one of them.<\/p>\n

But I have something to admit: I love the heat. Bring it on. Ignoring the existential dread of a perilously warming planet, there\u2019s something unifying and slightly humorous about watching the fashion cogniscenti come face-to-face with the elements. Some men chose to still wear their natty suit jackets or to show off carefully-planned ensembles that included artful layers of lightweight knits or overshirts, but you could see it in their wilting faces and panicked eyes\u2014the heat was getting to them.<\/p>\n

Not me. In the days leading up to my trip, I checked Accuweather obsessively and decided to bring a stack of barely-there T-shirts, most of which I acquired on eBay and are so worn-in they\u2019re practically transparent. I brought only two pairs of pants and loaded up on shorts, numbering a half-dozen and ranging from big<\/a> to the skimpy workout variety. Yesterday I landed and made my way through the baking city, and, while it was indeed warm, it was also wonderful. The light was golden, the streets were (relatively) unoccupied and certainly unhurried, and there was an unmistakable feeling that we\u2019re all in this together.<\/p>\n

I chalk it up to my Hawaiian background, but I think summer in a city is a combination of the best time of year and the best place to be for it. The heat, even when it\u2019s at its most stifling, is a feature, not a bug, of the season. There\u2019s something primal about it, elemental, and deeply temporal. It reminds you that you are in a body in a way few other things can.<\/p>\n

I love the forced simplicity of it all, when one is obliged to strip down to the barest of essentials. When all is said and done, is there a better outfit than a T-shirt and loose pants? I think not. Aren\u2019t we all on the hunt for that perfect, airy tee that feels like next-to-nothing on the body, or a pair of pants that has the just-right swishy drape and flow?<\/p>\n

Designers and editors are in love with presenting some heady idea of reality on a runway, but shy away from it when it actually comes a-knocking. What\u2019s more \u201creal\u201d than an outfit chosen to just get by on a hot summer\u2019s day? One built on necessity, not the whims of fancy\u2014that\u2019s where one\u2019s real style shines through. Crinkled linen, drooping cotton, a glistening brow, or a damp spot left at the chest or back from too much time in the sun? That\u2019s real life! And I think it\u2019s beautiful, even elegant, in its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Saint Laurent to Louis Vuitton, the talk of the first day of men\u2019s Fashion Week in Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[997,30,12230,7043,6775],"class_list":["post-40818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-fashion","tag-paris","tag-runway","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}