Do opposites attract? Couture might be all about glamour and glitz on the runway, but that’s not the whole story. Take Pierpaolo Piccioli, who showed up at Demna’s final Balenciaga show on the back of a motorcycle in dad sneakers. Or consider Sofia Coppola, who proves that you can in fact wear a pair of simple white jeans to sit front-row at Chanel. But of course couture isn’t couture without some opulence, of the kind that Cardi B. delivered at Schiaparelli and Lisa Rinna gave at Balenciaga. Below we’ve rounded up the extremes of street style at the fall 2025 couture shows in Paris.
Round 1: Jeans or Couture?
Are you more Sofia C or Cardi B?