Justice For Emily Charlton, Who Bloody Well Deserved To Go To Paris

Come 2nd October, the world will be introduced to peppy Chicago native Emily Cooper (Lily Collins), the protagonist of Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s first Netflix project, Emily in Paris. The title of the series is, of course, a nod to Emily Blunt’s Emily Charlton – the savage first assistant to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, whose dreams of going to Paris Fashion Week are foiled after she becomes an “incubus of viral plague” and gets in a car accident involving a truly ludicrous quantity of Hermès scarves. (Patricia Field, who famously sourced the costumes for the Runway staff, is also behind the clothes in Emily in Paris.) 

Our thoughts on Emily being replaced by Andrea Can-You-Please-Spell-Gabbana Sachs (Anne Hathaway)? To quote Emily through a mouthful of hospital chocolate pudding: “What a load of bollocks.” Below, the fantasy wardrobe she would wear to the spring/summer 2021 collections. 

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For The Flight

Emily would have spent weeks poring over which outfit she would wear to travel to the City of Light. As a Brit, Burberry would be the perfect way to represent her roots. Or maybe she would’ve said “Salut!” to Paris in Chanel?

For The FROW

Slipping into a dress designed by the man of the moment, Simon Porte Jacquemus, would’ve been quite the statement from Emily. Though, the closing look that Kaia Gerber wore at JW Anderson would have been equally as chic.

For The After Parties

Emily knows all about dressing to impress. Alexander McQueen’s fitted asymmetric dress with showstopper white boots or a swirling Marques’Almeida tiered maxi would have been an appropriate way for her to fly the flag for her hometown once again.

For Date Night

If Andy went on a date with Christian while in the French capital, Emily likely would have had a romantic dinner with someone, too. A slinky Charlotte Knowles look à la Bella Hadid or a vivid animal-print dress from Halpern would have knocked them off their feet.

For The Gala

What to wear to a dinner where your boss will throw a colleague under the bus? For the gala at which Miranda announced Jacqueline Follet as the new president of James Holt International, Emily would have looked stunning in a fishtail gown by Richard Quinn. Or, because she’s in Paris, she may have gone for a sweeping chartreuse-green Christian Dior Couture maxi.