PHOTOGRAPHY & ART DIRECTION
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CHIC REBELLION
Photographer FRENCH COWBOY
A Julien Crouïgneau & Mia Macfarlane Creation
Featuring fashion house Mode en Demeure
Stylist & Producer: AP Delarp
Female Models: Gala and Anastasia Degtyarenko at DMG Paris
Male Models: Loan Becmont, Ilias Bast, Daya and Abass Bourgi
Hair Stylist: Jean Baptiste Dubuy
Makeup Artist: Gabriel Leggieri
Editor Assistant: Clara Elfort
Photo Assistants: Agnese La Spisa and Linghui Qui
Backstage: Lily Quesnel and Dembo Camilo
Special thanks to Lola Melendez and Jordi Gomis for letting us into their world at Mode en Demeure.
Set against the architecture, cafés, streets, shadows, and rituals of Paris, the series imagines fashion as a private drama unfolding in public space. The city becomes both stage and accomplice. Its façades, church steps, café tables, narrow streets, red mosaics, and hard afternoon light frame a cast of characters who seem to have stepped out of another era, then decided to take possession of the present.
Mode en Demeure’s silhouettes are central to this visual narrative. Their world is one of complete dressing, where clothing, jewellery, handbags, shoes, and attitude are composed with intention. Nothing is casual, yet nothing feels static. The garments carry the elegance of old Paris, but they are not nostalgic. They move. They confront. They turn the sidewalk into theatre and the wearer into the event.
French Cowboy approaches the series as a dialogue between fashion and fiction. The images play with the codes of film noir, Parisian chic, street performance, and social ritual. Men in black suits appear as guardians, witnesses, or shadows. Women occupy the centre with authority, mystery, and controlled extravagance. The result is not simply a fashion editorial, but a sequence of scenes in which style becomes behaviour.
At its heart, Paris Day Out is about allure as an act of resistance. It celebrates the rare pleasure of dressing with conviction in a world that increasingly rewards speed, sameness, and disappearance. Here, fashion becomes visible again. It has posture, humour, tension, appetite, and memory.
Created by French Cowboy, a Julien Crouïgneau and Mia Macfarlane creation, the series pays tribute to Mode en Demeure’s singular vision: clothing as transformation, Paris as cinema, and elegance as something still capable of stopping traffic.