How French Women Are Wearing Cowboy Boots This Winter

How French Women Are Wearing Cowboy Boots This Winter By Eugénie Trochu Published 6 November 2026 In Features (Image credit: @eugenietrochu) Share Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Pinterest Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Eugénie Trochu is a Who What Wear editor in residence known for her transformative work at Vogue France and her Substack newsletter, where she documents and shares new trends, her no-nonsense approach to fashion and style, plus other musings. She's also working on her upcoming first book that explores fashion as a space of memory, projection, and reinvention.Forget the rodeo.In America, they're cowboy boots. In France, we call them santiags, a word that exists nowhere else and that says a lot about how we see them. We renamed them before we even put them on. Cowboy boots never reached Paris straight from the ranch: They came by way of Johnny Hallyday, France's answer to Elvis, and the leather-jacket rock scene of the '70s before ending up on the feet of women in the 6th arrondissement. In France, the santiag was a rocker's boot long before it was a cowboy's, which may explain why we've never managed to wear it...