PARIS / CLASSIC

Classic that you can walk straight from the museum to the street

STYLE RULE

Paris Classic isn’t a style that completes formalwear flawlessly without any gaps. Starting from classic pieces, you add softer fabrics, patterns, and ease—then shape it into a state that moves naturally through the city.

THE FORMULA

Soft trench coat
＋ Patterned shirt and tie
＋ Relaxed tailored trousers
＋ Refined leather accessories
= Parisian relaxed classic

You don’t need to match the same trench or HERMÈS.

Create soft vertical lines with a long coat and wide slacks, then add pattern to the shirt or the tie. Finally, if you coordinate the bag and gloves within the range of brown, gray, and gold, you can recreate the look with different pieces as well.

HOW TO BUILD

First, choose wide slacks with a fluid drape. For the shirt, don’t stick to solid color—incorporate fine patterns or painterly prints.

Don’t tighten the tie too much—layer it over a patterned shirt to create multiple expressions at the neckline. Then throw on a long trench, tying the belt just enough to keep its outline.

Use beige to brown, and muted gray for the hat, gloves, and bag. Only the shoes are kept in a darker tone to anchor the entire look.

PARIS BACKGROUND

The trench coat didn’t originate in France. It was a functional uniform worn by British officers during World War I, and Burberry and Aquascutum supplied the British Army. 

Paris’s defining trait is not simply preserving its utilitarian function, but continually reinterpreting it with new meaning for the body and the era.

In 1962, Yves Saint Laurent changed the relationship between length and the body, while preserving the raglan sleeves, double-breasted front, and belt of the trench—originally men’s British tailoring. Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris highlights this as a prime example of transferring men’s tailoring codes into a new wardrobe. 

This LOOK follows the same idea as well. It’s not about wearing an English-origin coat as rigidly as a military uniform; instead, it’s transformed into an elegance that lets you walk—from a café along the Seine all the way to the museum—through long drapes, painterly shirts, and soft slacks.

THIS LOOK

The centerpiece is a vintage long trench coat.

There’s room at the shoulders, sleeves, and torso, and even when the belt is tied, the waist isn’t drawn in sharply. Because the fabric falls straight down to the hem, the silhouette feels less structured and more fluid—moving in sync with the body.

Inside the coat, you layer Christian Dior’s patterned shirt with a printed tie reminiscent of newspaper pages. Although the patterns are paired, both are centered on black, white, and beige—so they read as differences in line and imagery rather than in color.

The bottoms are wide slacks that appear in a deep navy that reads as black. The patterned top and beige are taken in with calmer, darker shades.

RELAXED TAILORING

This LOOK’s sense of ease isn’t created by using fewer items, but by leaving space between your clothes and your body.

Both the coat and trousers are cut with width, and the tie isn’t pulled too tightly—keeping a slender, straight line. At the same time, the classic lines formed by the collar, belt, and pleats remain intact.

Keep the structure well composed, but loosen only the fit. This adjustment creates a balance between formal and everyday wear.

PATTERN LOGIC

A patterned shirt and a printed tie are a combination that’s often difficult to pull off in a typical classic style.

However, the shirt’s fine checks, motifs reminiscent of landscapes and architecture, and the tie’s text pattern are all kept within a monochrome to off-white range. Without increasing the number of colors, you add Parisian artistry by collaging different motifs.

When the trench is closed, the pattern remains only at the neckline; when you remove the coat, the entire shirt comes into view. This change in “information” depending on how you wear it is also a key point.

ACCESSORY LOGIC

The HERMÈS casquette connects your head to the look with a beige close to the trench, while tightening the area around your face with a brown brim.

The HERMÈS Alcazar bag features a neat, compact silhouette, with a body in gray tones and a gold chain. By making the bag smaller against a large coat, the outfit doesn’t look heavy overall.

Brown leather gloves coordinate with the casquette’s brim, and the gold hardware at the wrist ties into the bag’s chain. Even the GUCCI sunglasses are chosen in brown tones, bringing the accessories together within the same color range.

WHY IT WORKS

CLASSIC WITHOUT RIGIDITY

While sticking to the basic forms of a trench, a tie, and slacks, we add a little ease to everything. You keep the tension of formalwear, but there’s a lightness that lets you move around in the city.

ART THROUGH PATTERN

A patterned shirt and a printed tie add a depth to the outfit like a collage. Without using flashy colors, you create personality through combinations of motifs.

LARGE CLOTH, SMALL ACCESSORIES

We set the coat and slacks to be large, and the bag to be small. By creating a difference between the weight and volume of the fabric and the delicacy of the accessories, we adjust the overall balance of your entire look.

ROLE MAP

HOW TO TRY

WHAT TO KEEP

What should remain is the classic basic shape, the ease that lets the fabric move, and using patterns while keeping the number of colors restrained.

WHAT CAN CHANGE

You can swap the trench for a robe coat or balmacaan coat, and replace the patterned shirt with a scarf-pattern blouse.

If you don’t use a tie, you can achieve the same effect by letting a thin scarf fall at the neckline. Gloves aren’t essential either—you can carry the color through with a brown leather belt or a watch.

AVOID

If you straighten the shirt too firmly, tighten the tie strongly, and cinch the waist too much with the coat belt, you’ll lose the softness of this look.

On the other hand, if everything is relaxed too much, the silhouette can lose its shape—so keep classic lines in these three points: the collar, the tie, and the belt.

TAKEAWAY

The appeal of Paris Classic isn’t about breaking formalwear—it’s about softening it into something you can move in. Keeping the essentials of a trench, a tie, and slacks, while easing the tension with drape and pattern. By pairing small leather accessories with large pieces of fabric, you complete a classic where artistry and everyday life coexist.

If you want to find a look that feels truly you—comparing two styles inspired by the streets of Paris, using this styling—click here.

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