So when Emily in Paris debuted, it revealed just how far our collective obsession had gone, with a little gatekeeping thrown in, and subconscious snobbery about who gets to wear this style and what it actually looks like. Most criticism was directed towards protagonist Emily Cooper. Vogue, for example, called her clothes the “most cringe-worthy trigger of them all,” while Elle described Emily as having a “frenzied dress sense.” This wasn’t the case for her French boss Sylvie, or Camille, her Parisian friend, both of whom whose chic, je ne sais quoi ensembles – complete with a neutral colour palette and a style reminiscent of Carine Roitfeld and Jeanne Damas, respectively – earned applause from viewers.
