Paris swings between baggy excess and razor-sharp tailoring on menswear runways

A model walks the Prada runway during the menswear fashion week in Paris. It seems that a slimmer silhouette is back in fashion. Photo: AFP

The sign in the Levi’s window on Rue Etienne Marcel declared it: “La Saison Du Baggy” (French for "the season of baggy"). And so it was. Here in Paris clothes are wide, loose, flouncy.

Yet nothing kills a trend faster than being mainstreamed, and Levi’s? That’s mainstream.