What to know | Kiwi Lee's Paris Fashion Week: '90s Vintage Taste, CCD Records, and Three Louis Vuitton Looks

The cover and accompanying photographs are official images from Kiwi Lee’s lululemon travel styling campaign, rather than documentary photographs of this Paris Fashion Week appearance. Images courtesy of lululemon.

Looking back at Kiwi Lee's 2026 Paris Fashion Week record, the clearest thread isn't only her runway-season outfits, but also how she rearranged her work pace and daily imagery. In an interview published in May, she spoke about using her phone and a CCD camera to document her life, and mentioned her habit of browsing vintage shops in the Marais. These details offer another way of reading a fashion week: clothing is part of the job, but one's personal way of dressing and pace of observing a city also form a kind of style.

From entering the industry at 15 to leaving different kinds of records of fashion week

Kiwi Lee began modeling work at 15, and by the time of this interview had accumulated nearly 20 years of experience. She recalled that on past trips to Paris, she used to focus on how many shows she attended and how packed her schedule was; now she places more importance on her own state of being. Using a phone and CCD camera to document her life this time means the focus isn't only on completed styling looks, but also on fragments of the city captured outside of work.

From an editorial perspective, this shift allows fashion week imagery to hold two different scales at once: brand styling presents a complete outfit combination, while a personal camera preserves individual choices in observing. The two don't need to replace each other; for anyone reading these images, distinguishing between styled shoots and personal life records also helps avoid treating every photo as the same kind of assignment.

Vintage shops in the Marais, with a preference for clean-cut 1990s silhouettes

The Paris vintage shops she mentioned include NUOVO and NUMERO 13, with a preference for pieces with clean 1990s tailoring. The clue to understanding her clothing choices here lies in era and silhouette, rather than simply whether an item carries a secondhand label. For anyone planning a Paris walk centered on vintage shopping, these two shop names can serve as a starting point for further research; actual opening hours and inventory should still be confirmed with the shops themselves.

Vintage pieces and new runway garments also offer different ways of looking: the former can be approached through the proportions, materials, and condition of an existing piece, while the latter presents a brand's overall seasonal coordination. Placing the two side by side isn't meant to judge which is more fashionable, but to observe how an individual builds their own wardrobe from different sources.

Three Louis Vuitton looks — what details make up each one?

The clothing credits for the Paris images published at the time include a Louis Vuitton gold knit top paired with a draped plaid skirt; another outfit consists of a bow-tie blouse, black trousers, and earrings. There's also a loose, shimmering knit cardigan paired with a bow-collar blouse with flared sleeves and eyeglasses. The three looks allow one to read the clothing separately through the knit's surface texture, the drape of the skirt, and the lines of the neckline, rather than stopping at the brand name alone.

Returning to Kiwi Lee's Paris experience, her vintage preferences, seasonal looks, and personal imagery together form this record. What it presents is a fragment of personal style made public in spring 2026; keeping the dressing and shooting choices of that moment within a specific point in time, rather than extending one look into a fixed image for all her occasions, makes it easier to see how style shifts along with work and life.