5 Style Moves to Steal From Paris Fashion Week Men’s SS27

• Paris SS27 embraced ease, with softer tailoring, lighter fabrics, and relaxed styling.
• The standout style moves included oversized slouchy bags, sheer layers, shirtless suiting, suit jackets paired with short shorts, and vibrant yellow hues.
• Across Dior, Saint Laurent, Dries Van Noten, CELINE, Ami, and others, designers signaled a more confident direction for next summer’s menswear.

Paris sets the tone

Across six days of SS27 shows, the French capital loosened menswear’s collar in every sense. Jackets hung a little lower, shirts all but disappeared, bags collapsed into themselves, and fabrics became so light they barely qualified as layers at all.

Some of the season’s biggest moments came from creative directors settling into new chapters.

Jonathan Anderson made his Dior menswear debut with a wardrobe that felt equal parts art school and after-hours escapade, Michael Rider’s first outing for CELINE restored an effortless Parisian polish to the house, while Julian Klausner continued carving out a dreamy universe at Dries Van Noten.

Here are the five style moves that are already shaping next summer.

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1. Trade your briefcase for a big, slouchy bag

Designers embraced oversized carryalls that slouched, folded, and sagged with all the confidence of something that’s actually been used.

At Dries Van Noten, models loosely clutched oversized bags in washed fabrics and fluid nylons that looked like companions on an impromptu weekend escape. The relaxed accessories fit perfectly into Julian’s poetic vision of vulnerability and ease.

Ami doubled down with its aptly named Boyfriend Bag, cut from buttery Nappa leather that’s meant to soften and collapse over time instead of holding a pristine silhouette. Even CELINE balanced its leather clutches with oversized bags that looked better the less carefully they were carried.

2. Sheer is having its leading-man moment

If last summer belonged to mesh tanks, next summer belongs to tailoring you can almost see through.

Jonathan filled Dior with whisper-light organza jackets and translucent shirting that floated behind models like smoke. Styled over ripped denim, metallic trousers, and shimmering shorts, the clothes captured the energy of someone leaving the world’s chicest after-party just after sunrise.

At Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello stripped things back even further with paper-thin knits, transparent silk shirts, and the season’s most talked-about footwear: sheer leather dress shoes that somehow managed to feel both futuristic and timeless.

3. Lose the shirt, keep the suit

Paris officially declared the dress shirt optional. Saint Laurent led the charge with broad-shouldered jackets and deep V-neck waistcoats worn directly against bare skin.

Jonathan approached the idea with Dior’s undone tailoring, leaving jackets open over bare chests for a look that landed somewhere between rock star and gallery regular. At Givenchy, Sarah Burton sharpened the formula through impeccably cut double-breasted suits worn with nothing underneath.

Turns out, removing one layer can make tailoring feel twice as modern.

4. Short shorts are the new dress trousers

The shortest inseams in Paris came with the sharpest jackets. Ami paired relaxed blazers with easy shorts, while Dries Van Noten leaned into the same proportions, matching airy tailoring with abbreviated shorts that reinforced the collection’s romantic mood.

Then EGONLAB cranked the dial all the way up, sending tailored jackets out with micro shorts in cotton and denim. It’s a silhouette that shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does. Somehow, shortening the shorts only makes the tailoring feel more sophisticated.

5. Yellow is the color of next summer

Every season crowns an unexpected hero color. This time, yellow took the title without much competition.

Wooyoungmi explored everything from sun-faded yellows to electric chartreuse, channeling the Korean concept of heung, a feeling of spontaneous joy. Meanwhile, Junya Watanabe went full volume with a textured yellow tracksuit created alongside Needles.

After seasons dominated by brown, charcoal, and navy, yellow feels like fashion remembering that getting dressed is supposed to be fun.