Eugénie Trochu is a Who What Wear editor in residence known for her transformative work at Vogue France and her Substack newsletter, where she documents and shares new trends, her no-nonsense approach to fashion and style, plus other musings. She’s also working on her upcoming first book that explores fashion as a space of memory, projection, and reinvention.

Every summer, I convince myself I’ll only need one pair to get through it. And then, as always, I end up falling in love with a very specific mix of completely unnecessary yet absolutely essential details: tomato-red leather, a strap that sparkles a little too much in the sun, a thick flat sole that feels vaguely touristy, slightly regressive jelly material, or that little folk touch that makes you look like you’ve just come back from Ibiza when really you’ve just left the supermarket carrying tomatoes and toothpaste.