Get ready and explore the city — a green polka-dot smock dress by River Island, cinched with a Chanel logo belt, topped off with a red beret, on a quiet brick street corner in Lyon.

Standing against a brick building with black railings in Lyon, France, wearing a red beret, a green polka-dot smock dress with a Chanel logo belt, black tights, and ankle boots

Lyon in February is all narrow streets and iron railings, the kind of city that rewards wandering without much of a plan. A pop of red on top and a splash of green below felt right for it.

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