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Paris does not whisper; it lingers in smoke, in silhouette, in the symphony of shoes against wet pavé. This season, as the Autumn/Winter 2025/26 menswear shows unfolded across the city, the street became an unofficial runway: uncurated, unscripted, and profoundly revealing.

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Where the shows offered narrative, the street offered nuance. The elegance was quiet, almost conspiratorial less about spectacle, more about presence. Tailoring returned, but with softness. Shoulders dropped into ease, while collars rose like whispered defiance. The palette stayed faithful to winter: charcoal, cream, ink, bone. But textures spoke louder than colour ever could — raw wool, patent leather, matte nylon worn like armour.

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There was poetry in the pause: a model exhaling in the golden hush of Rue du Faubourg, an editor adjusting her coat like a cape of memory. Men wore coats with the solemnity of confessionals, scarves not as accessories but as gestures. Bags were architectural sculpted, held close, as if they carried more than objects.

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Street style in Paris is never accidental. It is instinct meeting ritual. It is the quiet confidence of a well-aged boot, the irony of an oversized trench over gym clothes, the dialogue between a perfectly shaven head and a pearl earring. It is coded, but not performative. Intimate, yet cinematic.

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One could argue that the true fashion show happens outside the venue, where the choreography is human and the styling, existential. Here, clothes are not trends they are choices. A defense, an offering, a memory sewn into form.

This season, the masculine gaze shifted inward towards emotion, restraint, and self-authorship. The garments did not shout; they lingered, they suggested. And in the grey Parisian light, everything was slower, deeper, quieter.

Like couture, street style too can be an art of deliberation. And in Paris, even the walk to the café becomes a composition — of fabric, of silhouette, of sou

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