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Paris is always a good idea (even if it’s just on Instagram)

25 Instagram accounts to follow if you love Paris

Some people will always have Paris. The rest of us will have to take what we can get from Instagram. Thankfully, if you're aching for a visit to the boulangerie or a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower, you can gulp down your dose, albeit vicariously, through social media. These are the models, artists, designers and musicians who call the City of Love their home, and are doing the community a service by documenting their surrounds. Below, find a list of the Instagram accounts to follow if you need more Paris in your life.

 

Caroline de Maigret

Model, musician and author Caroline de Maigret has made an art form of the undone, irreverent Parisienne.

 

Carrole Sagba

 

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Paris-based creative Carrole Sagba offers an effortlessly cool glimpse into the city through fashion, food and everyday life.

 

Camille Jansen

 

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Musician and Chanel girl, Jansen, is the epitome of a modern-day Parisienne.

 

Lily McMenamy

 

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English model and actress Lily McMenamy lives between Paris and London, has spent a lifetime on runways and puts on one-woman theatre shows. Très chic.

 

Simon Porte Jacquemus

 

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The French fashion designer splits his time between the French capital and his familial home in the South of France.

 

Camille Charriere

 

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She might be London-based now, but the French-English writer and content creator is a true Parisian at heart.

 

Ashley Radjarame

 

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French model Ashley Radjarame is Paris born and raised, with the wardrobe to match.

 

Camille Witt

 

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Model and creative Camille Witt documents Paris through an appropriately dreamy, off-duty lens.

 

Tina Kunakey

 

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French model Tina Kunakey serves up Paris with a side of sun-soaked glamour and enviable fashion.

 

Sofia de Moser Leitão

Paris-based stylist and creative Sofia de Moser Leitão's feed is an exercise in eclectic, impeccably French taste.

 

Tamara Mory

 

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Stylist Tamara Mory offers a distinctly insider view of Parisian fashion, from fittings and shoots to the streets in between.

 

Parisiens in Paris

Consider Parisiens in Paris your street-style surveillance camera: documenting what the city's best-dressed are actually wearing.

 

Michäela Thomsen

 

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French-Danish model and photographer Michäela Thomsen captures Paris with the kind of intimacy only a local can.

 

Filippa Hägg

 

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Swedish creative Filippa Hägg brings a Scandinavian eye to Parisian life, resulting in a feed of quietly impeccable taste.

 

Fadela

 

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Paris-based model and creative Fadela's feed moves between fashion, art and the beautifully mundane moments of city life.

 

Sabina Socol

 

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Romanian-born, Paris-based Sabina Socol has built her world around the kind of effortless French style we're all attempting to emulate.

 

Jeanne Damas

 

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Rouje founder Jeanne Damas is practically synonymous with the modern Parisienne — red lips, vintage denim and all.

 

Anne-Laure Mais

 

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Designer and Musier Paris founder Anne-Laure Mais offers a polished window into Parisian fashion, interiors and everyday life.

 

Fanny B

 

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Follow Fanny B for an intimate, effortlessly stylish dispatch from the streets of Paris.

 

Pia Moubayed

 

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Paris-based creative Pia Moubayed's feed is equal parts fashion moodboard and love letter to the city.

 

Mélodie Vaxelaire

French model Mélodie Vaxelaire documents a life between fashion, travel and the quieter corners of Paris.

 

Leia Sfez

 

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Creative director and consultant Leia Sfez has perfected a particular strain of understated Parisian cool.

 

French Toasts

 

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French Toasts is less about who is wearing what and more about pure Parisian atmosphere — cafés, façades and all.

 

Claire Most

 

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Model and creative Claire Most offers a romantic, slightly undone take on life in the French capital.

 

Lucie Mahé

 

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Paris-based creative Lucie Mahé's feed reads like a visual diary of fashion, friends and everyday life in the city.

 


If you're more of a London lover, check out our list of London-inspired Instagram accounts to follow for inspiration instead. Otherwise, here's a curated list of people based in New York City to follow.

 

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