Spring-Summer 2024 Collection: Longchamp University

To integrate successfully, students taking Art classes at Longchamp University have their own dress code: sweatshirts, tee-shirts, jackets and even dresses emblazoned with the logo of the institution. For days when they want to look really chic, they wear jeans and a jacket with a stylized racehorse print, or shrug on a zebra-stripe coat over their sweatshirt. Sometimes, they wear bermuda shorts to attend a lecture, or else to drink tea in the Latin Quarter or Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Though they’re very studious, they still make time to go out at night in the City of Light. Like true Parisiennes, they know how to give a casual twist to a sequined dress with a gray cotton tee-shirt.

On vacation, they head to Saint-Tropez, where they wear shorts made from upcycled silk scarves, crochet pieces with sweet daisy motifs, and long, slinky dresses with daring cutouts. They stroll around in sandals from Longchamp’s collaboration with K.Jacques, the iconic artisanal house synonymous with Saint-Tropez.

For the beach, their bag of choice is a large, woven Pliage® hold-all, but back in Paris, mini Pliage® and tiny Roseau or Epure bucket bags assert their city credentials. For class, the roomy Très Paris shoulder bag in supple calfskin combines style and practicality.

Erasmus students are quick to pick up the codes of the Parisienne. So what is their philosophy? “Printed on the sweatshirt, which is the statement piece of the Longchamp University collection, are the words “optimiste“ and “universel“. These values of universality and positivity capture the spirit of Longchamp to perfection,” says Sophie Delafontaine.

Positive colors: warm shades of orange, yellow and strawberry pink, plus deep purple. And, of course, black, white and khaki, truly universal.

The bags of the season:

• Le Pliage® in straw-like canvas
• The small, soft Roseau bucket
• The color-block Box-Trot

The cute detail: the string of colored beads to hang from your bag.