PARIS (AP) — Military regalia met bohemian ease at Enfants Riches Déprimés on Thursday, where designer Henri Alexander Levy once again proved his penchant for contradictions.

A military-looking, shiny-buttoned denim coat, cut with the sharpness of uniform, was paired with ’70s heeled boots and a model’s shaggy, Woodstock hair. It was counterculture refracted through bourgeois tailoring.

The edgy reputation of the house — whose name translates as “Depressed Rich Kids” — was intact. Levy gave Hedi Slimane-like preppy neckties a decadent twist with silver clasps and jeweled belts. White, wide pleated pants, almost aristocratic in their French country-house languor, turned rakish when topped with black leather and shades — the rich kid rolling back to family lunch after a lost weekend.

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