“I hope women see that the Parisienne isn’t necessarily a blond with poker-straight bangs but rather a cosmopolitan woman who defines her own style, which is modern and fun.”
—a conflation we likely owe to the framing of the 1950s and ’60s mavens of popular culture like Françoise Hardy and Brigitte Bardot asis as reductive to the real women of Paris as it is to the women aspiring to be them.
There’s a plurality of Parisian styles and personalities—that’s obvious from walking the streets of Paris. But with more and more women using social media to access and share a more diverse sample of images, experiences, lifestyles, and opinions, the disconnect between fantasy and reality is growing deeper and more glaring.
“Women of color generally don’t find themselves in the classic representations of Parisian women, in terms of fashion or makeup. A red lip might be common on a white woman, but we might go for something entirely different. We can’t all be reduced to a few images or to one archetype. Luckily, there’s been a democratization of makeup and beauty, which now leans very American. Think: contouring, highlighting. That has been a step toward liberating Parisian women to express themselves as they wish.
“Modest fashion allows me to express my femininity and the plurality of my identities, as a woman and practicing Muslim. It’s not an attempt to respond to or address the systemic Islamophobia that continues to plague France—the idea that Muslim women may not be ‘French enough’—because that message, told through fashion, wouldn’t be heard by the people and populations who espouse such beliefs.
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