It was a traffic-light colour scheme to get any fashionista hot under the collar: red, yellow and green thigh-high boots sauntering down the catwalk at Versace’s show for Milan Fashion Week.

This was no patent leather Pretty Woman reference though, more Avengers style -- the boots paired with capes or '60s-cut dresses, as well as tunics cinched in at the waist with large buckled belts, all worn with sunglasses in matching colours.

The catwalk was a blood-red runway onto which the models -- including Paris native Aya Jones, wearing an iconic silver choker which spelt out Versace in capital letters -- descended from above via a see-through staircase.

You thought logos were dead? Well not here: Donatella Versace splashed her family name in green, yellow and red across jersey tops, leather jackets and skirts in designs the press release described as having been “remixed by a DJ”.

There were cocktail dresses embroidered in vivid crystals, a black skirt with a zip up the back from bottom to top -- not to be used under the influence of alcohol -- and black dresses slashed with cut-outs, some lined with colour.

The autumn/winter 2015 collection boasted a fur green coat to the knee for those bitterly cold days, or a shorter feathered version in canary yellow -- though the wearer risks resembling an expensively dressed version of Warner Bros’s Tweety Bird.