eminently swimmable<\/a>, thanks to the \u201824 Olympics, if anybody\u2019s moved to get nekkid and take the dive because their riverfront boutique hotel ain\u2019t quite got around to putting the pool on the roof, Nick Jones\/Soho-House style. <\/p>\nDespite all that, when Paris\u2019 own crucial industry of fashion calls for a quorum, as at the 2027 Spring\/Summer mens\u2019 shows this week, the great and the good appear at reveille, no matter how the asphalt sticks underfoot as they scramble down the streets scouring the storefronts for at least a shimmering mirage of a cafe with a big sweating flagon of well-iced Sancerre being twirled in a silver bucket next to their waiting table. <\/p>\n
Pictured top, Vuitton Creative Director\/songwriter\/producer and possessor of many tons of well-iced cool, Pharell Williams, cheekily commits one of the seven deadly fashion sins outside the Dior Homme show on June 24, with a breezy, almost obstreperous own-brand fanny pack strapped to his back for his necessaries. Is it a fashion faux-pas like an own-goal in the World Cup? Well, yes, it can be almost that bad. Despite its (arguable) practicality, no man should wear this thing \u2013 the phone, the wallet, the passport, the analog diary if need be, all fit into pockets, and if for some reason that they won\u2019t, that is why briefcases were invented. That is the ur-man-canon, and it won\u2019t change. <\/p>\n
There is a set of non-dress exceptions: high-rise steel workers, film-set gaffers, best boys, sound men and stagehands worldwide swear by all manner of tool belts, giant industrial versions of fanny packs, and the like. They get a hall pass and many kudos for the work. <\/p>\n
But Williams is arguably the professional multi-tasker to break the dress-up fanny pack law. It\u2019s fashion brinkmanship of a high order he\u2019s engaged in here, risking a vertiginous dip in his style rating just for a gentlemanly appearance at a competing label\u2019s show. As usual, he pulls it off. Perhaps it\u2019s the insouciant hoodie, perhaps the backwards (alligator-hide or faux-alligator?) Vuitton baseball cap, but if a regular non-Pharrell dude were to attempt any piece of this, or all of it, he\u2019d be just another forgettable tourist on trite tourist-patrol errands in Paris. Williams is a working Parisian, in effect, and here he looks readily native, which is the power of a born clothes horse at work. We don\u2019t have to agree with the man to admire the puissance of the move. <\/p>\n
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 23: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Kate Moss attends the Saint Laurent Menswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Those beefy Parisian security boys seem ready for anything, including the heat, non? Pictured above heading into Saint Laurent\u2019s June 23 menswear show with one of her trusty minders scanning literally every untoward gesture within a hundred yards of them, tall, tan Britain\u2019s own model of well-aged agelessness, Kate Moss, seems to have the heat well and truly beat what with the lace-graced d\u00e9collet\u00e9 on that camisole. <\/p>\n
Still! Black leather jacket? Is there some disco back entrance nearby, or a stairwell leading to one, where she could duck in and fire up a John Player Special like she used to before the mad dash to a purring limo, keeping the knees primly together on entering the car because the skirts were kinda short back then? Because, back in the Naughty Nineties, disco back stairwells were dependably the places one could actually locate Ms. Moss. Proving that they could be trained as well as any fine gun dog on a grouse, paparazzi hungering for the \u2013 diplomatically put here in British tabloid-speak \u2013 \u201cworse-for-wear\u201d Moss shot soon learned to go to various famous back stairwells to see which one she was in that night.<\/p>\n
Wait! Sorry for that digressive misstep, that\u2019s right, she\u2019s moved on to longevity now. Abject, groveling apologies to Moss and everybody on the longevity team! Nevertheless, may we remind everybody, again, that it was precisely 40 Centigrade\/103 Fahrenheit in Paris on the 23 June, as she attended the Saint Laurent show? It\u2019s proof, if any were needed, that no matter the millibars on the barometer or the ambient temperature, when it is decreed by La Moss that nothing but black leather will do for impact, black leather it will be.<\/p>\n
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 23: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Rami Malek attends the Saint Laurent Menswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Former excellent Bond villian and international stage and screen player Rami Malek clearly got the same memo that Kate Moss received, and his black leather bomber looks really crisp here, what with those excellently generous French cuffs on the shirt turned back over the jacket sleeves, en route into the Saint Laurent show. Looks breezy and cool. Why he tucked his tie between the second and third button of his ice-cold striped shirt placket, as most military school cadets are required to do when not wearing their blouses or Ike jackets, is a mystery, but it has the effect of making Malek seem ever more cool-cucumber-ish and untouched by the local swelter. <\/p>\n
Yes, Malek could have worn a more seasonal get-up, and it would have seemed more reasonable. But he shouldn\u2019t have any of his people change anything about this gear, at least not for the moment \u2013 it\u2019s working. He should have his people figure out another villain role, because villains are the drivers of the engines of plot, and Malek is very good at making those characters seem real. Memo to Mrs. Bezos: Make those writers you have squirreling away on the thing bring back the splendid Lyutsifer Safin from the dead \u2013 that whole Poison Garden shooting scene where he pings Bond five-six times in No Time To Die was the best!<\/p>\n
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 24: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Mamadou Sidib\u00e9 attends the Dior Homme Menswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Sharp red-carpet shooter Edward Berthelot snagged the big one, and finally, we can also breath a sigh of relief that there is at least one well-dressed man in Paris at the shows who understands heat and how to work in it. Malian star soccer forward Mamadou Sidib\u00e9 exudes understated competence and resourcefulness in his hopsack-weave linen suit en route into Dior Homme on June 24, but what really carries this outfit into the ice-cold stratosphere of style is the choice of the tie-free wing collar. That is some good shirt, and it\u2019s working hard. The man in it has been around the world and then some. We should mention that the average daily temperature in Sidib\u00e9\u2019s natal district of Kayes, Mali, is 107-plus Fahrenheit in April and May? Just part of the reason that he looks so coolly at home in 102 Fahrenheit. <\/p>\n
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 24: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) James Marsden and Frederique Brons attend the Dior Homme Menswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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The Dior Homme showrunners had to have issued a memo \u2013 Hey, remember, it\u2019s summer and it\u2019s kinda hot in town this year \u2013 because the excellently dry James Marsden, who will be reprising his key X-Man Cyclops character in December\u2019s hotly awaited Avengers: Doomsday, is studiously cool in a plaid shirt and regulation dad-khakis, with sensible shoes and socks. It\u2019s the dad-khakis that make this kit, because, teamed with an actual plaid shirt, the combo screams: After lunch, we decided to leave the navy linen blazer back at the hotel, because it\u2019s too damn hot, okay? Okay??? <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fact that Marsden\u2019s partner, Dutch model Frederique Brons, is perfectly attired for the weather and her pinpoint-perfect white dress masks the need for any sort of jacket on any male within twenty yards of her. Because nobody within twenty yards of her is looking at any of the boys. <\/p>\n
PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 24: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Zo\u00eb Bleu Sidel and Yung Lean attend the Dior Homme Menswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24, 2026 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Swedish rapper Yung Lean, aka Jonatan Aron Leandoer H\u00e5stad, took a different, non-dad yet still summery climatic dressing route to the Dior Homme show, with the baggy jeans under an excellent white wifebeater and a plaid shirt in a sort of wash of \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 the Swedish national colors of blue and gold on a light green ground. Smart summer dressing! <\/p>\n
But let\u2019s back up a minute. First, while we might be forgiven for thinking it impossible since the Nordic country is one of the \u201chappier\u201d ones, Sweden does actually have, and generate, rappers. Yung Lean \u2013 whose stage name is taken from lean, the sugary drink some aficionadi concoct from codeine-based cough syrup \u2013 is considered one of the more gifted writers and singers among them, and regularly tours Europe. <\/p>\n
Yung Lean\u2019s partner, the actress known as Zo\u00eb Bleu \u2013 or Zo\u00eb Bleu Sidel, or Zo\u00eb Bleu Sidel Arquette, or more rarely, Zo\u00eb Arquette \u2013 is dressed as summery as possible for the occasion in a long, grand blue halter top dress. It\u2019s the spaghetti straps carrying all that flow of fabric down below that make this dress work so well, and make it so especially right for Paris through this blazing weekend. The dancerly clinch she\u2019s in with Yung Lean for the benefit of the photographers en route into the show is quite athletic. Note the extreme balletic placement of the feet \u2013 she\u2019s not giving up an inch of her stride, in fact she\u2019s ferociously extending it. Good for her. Zo\u00eb Bleu is teaching us something: When on display in Paris, push it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 24: Pharrell Williams attends the Dior Homme Menswear Spring\/Summer 2027 show as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3551,20498,28303,28304,30,6504,28305,28301,10334,19706,28302],"class_list":["post-41232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-dior","tag-kate-moss","tag-mamadou-sidibe","tag-no-time-to-die","tag-paris","tag-paris-fashion-week","tag-paris-fashion-week-menswear-spring-summer-27","tag-pharell-williams","tag-rami-malek","tag-vuitton","tag-zoe-bleu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232","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=41232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}