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How Street Style Changed This Year, According to Vogue Photographer and Style du Monde Founder Acielle

It’s been a full year since Vogue’s street style coverage has transmitted the kind of frenetic energy and exuberance we’ve come to expect. Bustling crowds, celebrity sightings, traffic-stopping outfits—it all disappeared when Fashion Week became near impossible last March. When the menswear and couture shows quietly resumed in the summer, the feeling wasn’t quite the same, with masks obscuring people’s smiles (necessarily so!) and subdued, unflashy outfits replacing the mesmerizing looks of the Before Times.

Last October, Style du Monde’s Acielle was in Paris to shoot street style for Vogue. She recalled the distinct oddness of running into models, designers, and editors she’d known for years—friends she would normally embrace and catch up with—but being unable to come within six feet or truly reconnect. It’s a sensation many of us have felt at one point or another: meeting family and friends outdoors but stopping short of fully expressing our joy.

“The human connection is what I miss most,” Acielle says. “I always love to see my friends and colleagues at Fashion Week, and I think everyone is missing that emotion and connection. But I’m very grateful I was able to work at this time because I know a lot of photographers and models had to stay home due to travel restrictions.” (Still, not everyone is as intrepid as Acielle! She estimates taking at least five COVID tests in the course of a week in order to travel between Belgium and Paris and attend certain shows.)

It wasn’t all bad, of course. Seeing as this wasn’t the moment for borrowed runway looks or multiple outfit changes, we got a glimpse of people’s most relaxed, personal style again. “I actually enjoyed how it felt more genuine,” Acielle says. “Some of the models really took their time getting dressed, or they tried some interesting mixtures, like a sweater over a denim jacket. They were still practical clothes, but with some twists. I always appreciate that element of surprise.”

Many of the people in Acielle’s photographs weren’t models, celebrities, editors, or so-called fashion people at all but stylish locals out for a walk or to run errands. The lighter fashion-show schedule gave her the rare opportunity to wander through her favorite neighborhoods and photograph locals again; she even snapped a few on the Métro.


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