Winter's tale: Paris menswear autumn-winter fashion shows

White was the colour of Paris menswear fashion shows for autumn-winter. But it was not in the clothes. The last of five frenetic days of collections saw the City of Light turn into the city of frost, with snow blanketing Paris and reducing its grand buildings and monuments to the purest of shapes.

It's perhaps appropriate that designers Alber Elbaz and Lucas Ossendrijver explored shapes and proportions for Lanvin's menswear collection.

With a futurist and sporty edge, some of the silhouettes expanded in baggy coats, boxy jackets, and voluminous pants with a low slung crotch. Others were shrunk, for instance, in a sexy fitted black leather jacket with square geometric sections, a tight pentagon-shaped tank top, or skinny pants.

Large hats and trilbies cropped up at John Galliano and at Berluti. The trend for trousers was for the cut to expose the boot as seen in Carven and Juun J.

Designers including Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent also dabbled in blowing up traditional patterns such as Madras, Prince of Wales check and houndstooth.

Perhaps it was the recent death of Maurice Herzog, the first man to scale the 8,000-metre Annapurna, that inspired Louis Vuitton to scale the Himalayas for his winter menswear outing. Whatever the reason, it worked - with designer Kim Jones turning out an effortless, luxury collection.