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No. 08

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Model in an oversized white shirt with supersized fringed cuffs, black trousers and a coin belt, mid-stride on the runway

Runway

New York just said goodbye to the clean girl

After seasons of beige restraint, the SS27 shows in Manhattan swung hard toward colour, fringe and fun. OODT Online's verdict: this one is earned.

Model in a colour-blocked mod swing dress in primary red, blue and yellow with white go-go boots on the runway

Mod minis are back, and the sixties brought colour with them

The shift dress, the colour block, the flat boot — the decade that invented youth culture is this season's loudest reference. Here is how to read it.

Model in a long burgundy velvet duster coat over a bohemian floral maxi dress, walking a warm-lit runway

Boho never left — it just stopped being seasonal

Velvet dusters in September, florals in autumn, longer hemlines all year. The old calendar rules for romantic dressing are quietly dead.

Model wearing a long draped oversized wool coat in cool studio light

The quiet return of the oversized coat

Why the season's loudest line is, somehow, the softest — and what it signals for the next decade.

Close crop of a sculptural black leather ankle boot

The return of the shoulder, read from the Paris floor

Structure as attitude — and the quietest way a house signals a new decade.

Runway show crowd in blurred motion with a single lit figure walking

Why runway shows are getting shorter

The twelve-minute rule, the phone in the front row, and what it does to the vote.

Street style

Off the runway
Woman in an oversized charcoal coat and sunglasses on a Paris sidewalk
Man in a camel overcoat and scarf holding a coffee outside a show venue
Two friends in chunky knits and long denim skirts laughing on a city street
Woman in a belted olive trench coat crossing a busy street

Spotted between shows — what people actually wear when the lights are off.

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