Emily in Paris Season 5 Outfits: Shop Every Look from Rome

Emily Cooper has moved to Rome and somehow her wardrobe got even more.

I know that sounds impossible. This is a character who once wore a Kangol beret with a Peter Pan collar and a Chanel brooch the size of a dinner plate, all at the same time. But season 5 takes what was already maximalist and cranks it up to Italian opera levels, and honestly? It works better here than it ever did in Paris.

Why Rome changes everything

Costume designer Marylin Fitoussi has been dressing Emily since season 1, and she clearly understood something about this move. In Paris, Emily's outfits were always slightly wrong on purpose, a little too much, a little too American, clashing with the understated Parisian women around her. That tension was the joke.

In Rome, the rules are different. Italian fashion is bold by nature. Colour, pattern, texture, drama; these aren't mistakes in Italy, they're the point. So Emily's wardrobe stops being "too much for Paris" and starts being "exactly right for Rome." The shift is subtle but it changes how you read every outfit.

Fitoussi pulled from Italian cinema this season. Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, the golden age of Italian film where women wore polka dots and prints without apology. About half the wardrobe is archival and vintage pieces, which gives the looks a depth that off-the-rack designer clothes can't replicate.

The standout looks

The green striped arrival (Episode 1). Emily lands in Rome wearing a Sebline green embroidered striped jacket with a matching ruffle shirt and Claudie Pierlot shorts. It's coordinated chaos, every piece has its own pattern energy but they share a colour family that holds it together. This is the outfit that tells you Italy-Emily is going to be different. In Paris she would have added a hat. In Rome she lets the jacket do the talking.

The D&G plaid and floral midi (Episode 4). This is peak Emily. A Dolce & Gabbana dress that mixes plaid with floral print in a way that should be illegal but somehow reads as "confident woman at a Roman dinner." The construction is what sells it. The plaid is structured, almost architectural, while the floral overlay softens it. It's the kind of piece that would look like a costume on most people but reads as intentional on someone who commits to it fully.

The Nina Ricci polka dot strapless (Episode 10). The finale dress. Black, ruched, strapless, with polka dot details that reference Italian cinema without being costume-y about it. This is Fitoussi at her best, a dress that carries emotional weight (it's a big episode) while also looking like something a real person would choose for a significant night out.

What FetchFashion found

I ran all three looks through FetchFashion, an AI visual search tool that identifies clothes from any photo and finds where to buy them across 1,000+ retailers. You upload a screenshot, the AI analyzes what you're wearing, and it returns matching or similar pieces with prices and direct links. Think of it as Shazam for clothes.

The green striped blazer had the strongest matches. Striped blazers are everywhere right now and the search returned replica jackets and similar striped blazers at accessible prices. None are the exact Sebline piece (that's archival), but a green striped blazer in this silhouette is very findable. The colour family matters more than the exact pattern here.

The plaid-and-floral midi is harder to match exactly, because mixing plaid with florals is a specific designer move that fast fashion tends to simplify into one pattern or the other. The search found midi dresses with checkered and print details that capture the spirit if not the exact execution. If you want the real thing, vintage D&G on resale platforms is your best bet.

The strapless polka dot dress returned solid options from Princess Polly, Boohoo, and ASOS, all under $55. The original Nina Ricci piece is a runway item, but the strapless ruched silhouette is the part that makes it work as a going-out dress, and that's very findable at high-street prices. The polka dots are a Fitoussi touch you can add with accessories.

How to search for these looks yourself

If you spot an outfit on screen that you want, you can find it on FetchFashion in seconds:

1. Screenshot the outfit from whatever you're watching
2. Upload the image to FetchFashion
3. The AI identifies each clothing piece and searches retailers in your country
4. You get matching products with prices and direct purchase links

It's free to try (3 searches per day) and works with any photo: TV shows, Instagram posts, magazine pages, street style shots. The search is visual, so it matches based on what the clothing looks like, not keywords.

FetchFashion also analyzes your outfit's style and suggests complementary pieces to complete the look: shoes, bags, accessories that match. Found something you love? Save it to your personal wishlist and come back to it later.

What makes this season's fashion different

The real shift isn't just geography. Fitoussi estimates that 40 to 50 percent of this season's costumes are archival garments, pieces sourced from vintage shops and designer archives. She's talked about GoodJo Paris, a designer thrift store, as a favourite source.

This matters because archival pieces have a weight and a construction quality that new fast fashion can't replicate. When Emily wears a vintage Dolce & Gabbana blazer, the fabric drapes differently. The seams sit differently. You can see it on screen even if you can't name exactly what's different.

For finding similar pieces, FetchFashion is particularly useful here because it searches visually, not by brand or keyword. Upload a screenshot of the exact scene and it finds the closest matches based on what the clothing actually looks like, regardless of whether the original is a runway archive piece or a £30 jacket from the high street.

Would I wear it?

The green striped blazer, in a heartbeat. I'd pair it with black instead of matching green because I'm not Emily Cooper and I don't have her commitment to full coordination. The plaid-floral midi is a wedding guest situation for me; I'd need the right occasion to pull it off. The strapless polka dot dress I'd wear tomorrow.

Emily's Rome wardrobe proves that sometimes the best thing you can do for your style is change the city. Different backdrop, different rules, same person. The outfits that felt like too much in Paris feel exactly right in Rome.