Rising model, 16-year-old Kaia Gerber – daughter of Cindy Crawford and the face of Jacobs’ perfume Daisy – eclipsed the more established Bella and Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner to close the show in a canary yellow beaded evening gown, black gloves and black turban.

His was a conservative if fantastical vision of spring 2018, with barely an ounce of flesh in sight – just a shoulder here, or an arm there. His models all covered their hair with silk turbans that mimicked those of a mid-20th century London cleaning lady, but made stylish by elegant women from the West Indies or conservative Muslims.

His models wore oversized jackets, long gloves and harem pants. A halter-neck pink evening gown was paired with matching pants. Accessories were enormous bags – one made to look like a folded suit carrier – fanny packs on the waist with pom-pom style shrugs.

His shoes were almost uniformly flat – the most modest of heels on pastel-coloured leather boots, Japanese-style house shoes worn with ankle black nylons, or extravagantly embellished rubber soled sandals.

The entire collection made sportswear look decadent and exotic – in orange, pink, green and 1970s-style bold psychedelic silk prints, large checked outwear and enormous rainy-anorak style hooded coats.