Margot Robbie’s Paris street style has been generating a certain kind of attention this week, the sort that has less to do with celebrity and more to do with how a look is actually constructed. Stepping out in the rain alongside Tom Ackerley, she appeared outside the Le Bristol Hotel wearing a low-rise midi skirt, a sheer lace camisole, and black leather boots, and the combination was considered enough to repay some attention.
The Lila Skirt and the logic of the high slit
The skirt in question is the ‘Lila Skirt’ in the shade Slate from With Jean, an Australian label that has made a quiet name for itself in the category of relaxed, body-conscious pieces that sit somewhere between holiday wear and genuine wardrobe architecture. The Lila is cut as a low-rise midi, fitted through the hip with soft ruched detailing across the waistband, and finished with a side slit that climbs to thigh height. That slit is the structural argument of the whole outfit: it converts a midi length, which reads as composed and almost demure, into something with considerably more edge. The tension between the two registers is where the interest lies.
The decision to pair the skirt with a sheer lace camisole from Zara rather than something more overtly luxurious was, in its own way, the more pointed choice. The olive-grey top features thin spaghetti straps, floral embroidery, and sequin embellishments, and comes with a matching sheer lace neck scarf worn loosely. Affordability made visible against high-end accessories is a familiar move in contemporary celebrity dressing, but Robbie’s version reads less as a calculated contrast and more as genuine indifference to the hierarchy. The Zara piece earns its place.
Accessories that anchor rather than compete
The boots are the ‘Clive’ ankle boot by Khaite, in black leather with a deliberately slouchy cut. The silhouette matters here: a stiffer or more polished boot would have sharpened the look into something more rigidly styled, whereas the Clive’s relaxed fall keeps the whole ensemble in the register of thrown-together, which is the register the outfit is working in. Over her shoulder, a vintage black leather Chanel shoulder bag with gold hardware supplied the kind of provenance that needs no announcement.
Robbie held an umbrella against the Paris rain, and the effect was of someone entirely unconcerned with the weather as a variable. Hair in soft, loose waves, makeup light and radiant with a neutral lip, dark red nails providing the one moment of deliberate colour punctuation. The umbrella, practically speaking, kept the sheer top dry. Aesthetically speaking, it completed the picture.
What makes this particular outing worth considering is its consistency with a broader approach Robbie has been refining across her time in the city. The repeated elements are: low-rise cuts, sheer fabrics, a vintage Chanel piece used as a grounding device, and boots that lean slouchy rather than severe. None of these are arbitrary. Taken together, they describe a sensibility that borrows from Y2K’s appetite for body-consciousness and Parisian street style’s preference for apparent ease, without being reducible to either. It is a coherent visual position, and the Lila Skirt, with its thigh-high slit splitting the midi length in two, is close to its clearest statement yet.
