News Awards & Events Fashion Week Black and White Motifs Go FTW at Paris Fashion Week By InStyle Editors InStyle Editors Facebook Instagram Twitter Our editors and writers comprise decades of expertise across the beauty, fashion, lifestyle and wellness spaces in print and digital. We prioritize journalistic integrity, factual accuracy, and also having fun with every story we share. InStyle's editorial guidelines Updated on October 1, 2017 @ 05:15PM Pin Share Tweet Email Trending Videos Photo: Catwalking/Getty While high impact hues have been a major theme throughout this last fashion month (we see you pastels and millennial pink), they're not a hard and fast requirement for the season ahead. The Parisian runways are proving classic black and white to be an equally memorable alternative—provided, that is, you've got a innovative way to wear them. Some of of favorites idea thus far: the stellar "Franken-dresses" at Givenchy and Altuzarra, both pastiched masterpieces featuring different monochrome prints. Meanwhile we also love the graphic direction in which Christian Dior and Junya Watanabe took the (non) color scheme with clean-lined checkered treatments. And the elegant paintbrush stroke pattern—mixed with '80s society lady silhouettes and crystal earrings—at Off-White felt like something a modern day Princess Diana would own. Who doesn't want to wear that? Keep scroll for the best black and white looks from PFW. 01 of 07 Off/White Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/Getty 02 of 07 Altuzarra Francois Durand/Getty 03 of 07 Christian Dior Catwalking/Getty 04 of 07 Balmain Victor VIRGILE/Getty 05 of 07 Junya Watanabe Peter White/Getty 06 of 07 Givenchy Estrop/Getty 07 of 07 Sonia Rykiel Catwalking/Getty