Paris Stylist Elisabeth Bento Shares Five Spring Trends Her Daughters Love

Butter yellow

Elisabeth Bento has spent more than three decades in fashion, from Karin Models in Paris to L’Officiel, Maje, and now her own styling world, so when she says a color works, she is not just chasing a feed. Butter yellow came to her through Salomé and Tamara Mory, her daughters with tens of thousands of followers, and that is exactly why it feels smart instead of juvenile: she first wore it because they were obsessed, then kept it because it looked good on a grown woman with taste. The formula is simple and sharp, butter yellow with blue jeans, beige, and warm browns, which is how a candy-adjacent shade turns into something fresh, elegant, and very Paris. Jennifer Lawrence and Alexa Chung have been used as the modern reference points for making the shade feel polished in 2026, and butter yellow tops look strongest when they sit against denim and other grounded neutrals.

Polka dots

Bento calls polka dots the “most intergenerational print,” and she means it like a family code. She and her daughters all reach for Réalisation Par, with Bento favoring black-and-white or navy-and-white dresses, while Tamara has nudged her toward a red-and-white version that feels bolder without tipping into costume. That instinct lines up with the spring 2026 runways, where polka dots showed up at Khaite, Altuzarra, Carolina Herrera, Dries Van Noten, Patou, Christian Siriano, Vetements, Schiaparelli, and Tory Burch, and at Dice Kayek, where Ece Ege used the print to add ease and pop to everyday elegance. In other words, the print has officially graduated from cute to canon, which is exactly why it works for mothers and daughters at the same table.

Blue jeans

This is where Bento’s taste gets good in the real world. Blue jeans are the thing that keeps the look from reading like a trend report, because once butter yellow lands on denim, the whole outfit relaxes and starts speaking Paris instead of internet. Spring 2026 denim coverage keeps circling back to jeans as the season’s backbone, from bootcut styles in the spotlight to French-girl outfits built around light knits and suede blazers, and Bento uses that same logic by letting the jeans do the heavy lifting. The result is a formula you can actually live in: one bright piece, one familiar pair of jeans, no drama.

Beige and warm browns

Beige and warm browns are the adult filter in the family styling equation. Bento says the butter yellow look feels “fresh but still very elegant,” and the beige-brown layer is what gets it there, pulling the color down from sweet into polished. This is the part most trend coverage skips, but it is the part that matters if you want the outfit to work past 25: think butter yellow up top, blue jeans below, then camel, oatmeal, or chocolate-brown accents to soften the edges. Who What Wear’s spring styling coverage keeps making the same point from a different angle, pairing butter yellow with oatmeal, cashmere, and chocolate brown because those grounded shades make the color look more expensive and less precious.

Réalisation Par dresses

If butter yellow is the flirt and beige is the filter, Réalisation Par is the shared family uniform. Bento says it is the brand where she, Salomé, and Tamara all find favorites, and she likes that some of the styles are “very sexy” while others are elegant enough to remind her of the Julia Roberts polo-match look in Pretty Woman. That is the real trick here: she does not reject her daughters’ taste, she edits it, choosing the versions that read as easy and repeatable instead of overexposed. With The Closeters, her secondhand and circular-wardrobe project, that instinct feels even more pointed. A trend only earns its place when it can survive more than one season, and Bento’s family style has already done the hard part by turning novelty into a uniform.