With Paris Fashion Week in full swing, closing fashion month with the bang that fashion giants like Chanel, Dior and Louis Vuitton so reliably deliver—and following the news that season two of Emily in Paris will arrive in December as a perfectly-timed guilty pleasure—many people are fantasizing about the City of Lights right now.
As travel remains complicated, the next best thing to an actual trip to France is a particularly chic Netflix bingse. From the documentaries that hand you a backstage pass to Paris Fashion Week via insights into the minds of creatives like Karl Lagerfeld and Olivier Rousteing, to comedies that deliver all the camp clichés you crave, discover five Netflix hits with a distinctly Gallic flavor to enjoy during PFW.
Photo: Carole Bethuel/Netflix1/5Emily In Paris
The show that set keyboards ablaze, experience Paris through the wide eyes of American ingénue Emily in this Netflix hit. Laugh (or weep) at all the fun clichés—and occasional uncomfortable truths—about the city, seen here at its most romanticized.
Photo: Alamy2/5Lady J
With fabulous costumes and sumptuous locations, this period drama, set in 18th-century France, follows an aristocratic widow as she plots her revenge on a lustful lover after their romance goes awry. Ready yourself for gorgeous shots of some pristinely manicured gardens.
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix3/57 Days Out
One episode in this documentary series is dedicated to the final build-up ahead of Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel Haute Couture show at Paris Fashion Week, and all the energy, anticipation and creativity involved. It’s directed by Andrew Rossi, the documentarian who made the Met gala documentary The First Monday in May.
Photo: Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection4/5Wonder Boy
Just 25 when he took the helm at Balmain—becoming the youngest creative director in Paris since Yves Saint Laurent—French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing was adopted as a baby. This documentary follows his search for his birth mother, and offers a glimpse into his impossibly glamorous world as well as some deeply vulnerable moments.
Photo: Christophe Brachet/Netflix5/5Call My Agent!
Following talent agents scrambling to keep their clients happy, this cult comedy occasionally features real stars, like Monica Bellucci and Juliette Binoche, playing fictionalized versions of themselves. Catch icons like Charlotte Gainsbourg wearing fabulously terrible sequined silver suits to appear in equally terrible sci-fi films.
