Governmental garçons: how politics turned French style on its head

A new book celebrating French style is coming out, just as France is changing its view on fashion. Blame Nicolas Sarkozy, blame the recent burkini ban, but French fashion is now all about boyishness

Etre Blank: French women on the new normcore

As body adornment becomes increasingly middle-class, French women are rebelling, creating their own normcore look

Yes, French women are chic. But they don’t own the secret to style

The real allure of their dressing is its simplicity – and not pandering to fashion