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scene stealers
January 24, 2013

Street Style: The Opulent Clothes at Couture

By YoungJun Koo and Stella Bugbee

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In many ways, couture is a preamble to the coming fashion month. Or, as we like to think of it, the qualifying rounds for the Street Style Olympics soon to come. While some attendees proved their devotion to fashion by wearing bare legs and pumps with utter disregard for the weather, others, like stylist Elisa Nalin, stayed warm and quirky in layers of mismatched plaids. Unlike most ready-to-wear seasons, the women who attend couture choose extra-opulent clothes with the confidence only money can buy, and Cut photographer Young Jin Koo was on the snowy scene in Paris this week to capture the crowd outside of the shows.

Click through our slideshow to see Carine, wrapped in Prada’s fur stole; Caroline de Maigret in danger of being overtaken by the Frenchness of her own hair; Nasiba Adilova in Céline’s polka-dot suit; the always-chic Ece Sükan of Vogue Turkey; plus Elisa Nalin, Dita Von Teese, Cara Delevingne, the breathtaking actress Zhang Ziyi, and more.

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Zhang Ziyi, actress  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Alexsandra Melnichenko, couture collector and socialite  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Nasiba Adilova, fashion blogger  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Dita Von Teese, burlesque dancer  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Barbara Martelo, design consultant  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Nicholas Kirkwood Boots  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Nadira Bakytzhankyzy, fashion blogger  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Ulyana Sergeenko, fashion designer and blogger  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Hanne Gaby Odiele, model  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Carine Roitfeld's Alaïa shoes  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Ece Sükan, editor-at-large at Vogue Turkey  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Caroline Brasch Nielsen, model  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Anya Ziourova, fashion director at Tatler Russia  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Zhanna Romashka, photographer  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Ly Nha Ky, model  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
So Young Kang, model  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Alexandra Golovanoff, host of La Mode, La Mode, La Mode  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Lynn Yaeger, fashion editor and writer  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Gina Jung, fashion editor at W Korea  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Laure Heriard Dubreuil, buyer at the Webster Miami  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Ji Hye Park and Soo Joo Park, models  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Elisa Nalin, stylist  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Cara Delevingne, model  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Elisa Nalin, stylist  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Miroslava Duma, editor at Buro 24/7  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Carine Roitfeld, editor at CR Fashion Book   Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Caroline de Maigret, model  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Tamu McPherson, photographer  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
Giuseppe Zanotti Heels  Photo: Youngjun Koo/I’M KOO
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