YSL lights up the Eiffel Tower & feminism on Dior runway

Yves Saint Laurent:

Glittering lights sparkled all over the Eiffel Tower to gasps from the fashion crowd and an audience of public that had gathered along a wall - and then it began.

A stellar line up of the industry’s top models, including newcomer 16 year old Kaia Gerber, daughter of Cindy Crawford, walked along the runway at the Trocadero fountains with Paris’s most famous icon as the backdrop.

Antony Vaccharello, Saint Laurent’s creative director, pulled off his most impressive show and collection yet, with thigh skimming skirts, 80s power shoulders and a touch of XXX. Most of these womenswear looks were the “sex on legs” variety. Loose and lovely billowing sheer skirts and blouses, plumes of ostrich feathers bounced to perfect dramatic effect and to end, a sumptuous finale of black, white (and occasional red) sculptural gowns that used voluminous folds of fabric to create architecture around the body.