Lachlan Bailey Flashes Summer Style in Paris for WSJ Magazine Digital Summer 2022 AOC Fashion

Rising German model Smilla Osswald explores the carefree side of summer in Paris for WSJ Magazine’s summer digital issue. Photographer Lachlan Bailey [IG] captures ‘Simple Summer Styles with a French Twist’, including Isabel Marant chunky sweaters, Versace rose-colored tanks and knit crop tops from Ralph Lauren.

Dining alfresco in Paris is almost always an enchanting experience. Anastasia Barbieri give us a nudge to rock out wearing a Dolce & Gabbana’s belted black biker jacket or the clean slate of a white leather version from Celine by Hedi Slimane. A faux-fur jacket and velvet boots from Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello add a hint of mystique, with an eye towards fall style.

Reflecting on Paris this minute — ‘book smart’ comes to mind. Paris is a place for wandering and watching, for soaking up the atmosphere, for thinking new thoughts.

In these terrible moments for women in America, I am thinking about the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral and its inclusion of Lilith at the Portal of the Virgin:

Under the pillar, a bas-relief represents the story of Adam and Eve in three sequences: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (or earthly paradise), the temptation of Adam and original sin (the devil is represented under the form of Lilith, an alluring woman with a long serpent's tail) and the expulsion of the first men from the Garden of Eden.