Free as a Bird: Blazy's Chanel Rules Paris

No bag owned Paris Fashion Week street style this week like Schiaparelli's Soufflé. The slouchy hobo — its handle crowned with hammered gold-brass Anatomy jewels that resolve into a surrealist face — kept photobombing the best-dressed crowds outside the shows, and one viral street-style post sent search interest soaring.

It has been building for months. Dua Lipa carried the yellow grained-calfskin version through New York on July 4; Demi Moore and Heart Evangelista are repeat carriers. Daniel Roseberry's surrealist hardware turned out to be the perfect foil for fashion week's tailoring-heavy mood: the weirder the bag, the cleaner the outfit around it.

The house lists the Small Soufflé in Bordeaux red calfskin with a trompe-l'oeil woven effect at €5,200, and a saddlery-inspired Caramel grained-leather edition embroidered with tone-on-tone house codes at €6,400. Both read as sculpture first, handbag second — which is exactly why they photograph so well.

Miu Miu used its October 4 'Here and Now' show at the Palais d'Iéna to open a new chapter in fashion's most consequential sneaker partnership. The New Balance RC150 — an obscure 1990s racing flat named for its 150-gram weight — returns reconstructed in technical mesh with suede accents, zigzag stitching and the house's signature double lacing, this time with metal toe loops.

The casting did the talking: Olivia Colman walked in a black leather skirt suit, alongside Gigi Hadid (diamante-panelled midi skirt, RC150s on foot), Emma Corrin and Jamie Bell. Miuccia Prada's brief was 'to bring elegance to sport,' and the styling — draw-cord shorts and hotpants against layered skirts, jewels and knitwear — made the case.

The RC150 lands in February 2027, but the collaboration's current 530 SL line is buyable now and still the easiest entry point into the Miu Miu x New Balance universe.

The shield sunglass had its commercial moment on October 1, when the Kiko Kostadinov x Oakley Ellipse finally went on sale. Born on the label's AW26 womenswear runway, the frame — Oakley's logo turned into eyewear — comes in two nature-magnified finishes, Amherst Fade and Woodgrain, both with Prizm Bronze lenses. Laura and Deanna Fanning's birdwatching references (feathers, wood grain, Cindy Sherman's Fitcher's Bird) give performance eyewear an art-school alibi.

At $356 it sits at the accessible end of fashion eyewear, which is precisely why it is moving. And on the Paris street, the luxury counterpoint is Cartier's Panthère: panther heads biting into gold frames, the feline house code doing quiet work in front-row and street-style shots alike.

Cathy Horyn's verdict on the season cut through the noise: little on the Paris runways feels fresh, with Loewe, Celine and Jean Paul Gaultier the exceptions. At Loewe, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez brought an American sportswear ease and realness that European runways rarely emphasize — a notable reset for the house.

At Gaultier, Duran Lantink delivered his most wearable collection yet: cone bras flashing through garments, bullet-bra tailoring, tartan skirt suits, split-toe shoes and a mirrored show space. The bizarre made beautiful — and, crucially, buyable.

The throughline is craft you can feel. Loewe's leather-goods mastery remains the house's anchor — the Puzzle bag, all geometric panels and nine hours of handwork, is the quiet-luxury icon that the week's louder bags are reacting against.