Paris Fashion Week: Is Saint Laurent getting catty? The fetish-style catsuits and pussy-bow blouses might give a hint
Zoe Kravitz and Hailey Baldwin, the model married to performer Justin Bieber, watched the show in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower
Luxury fashion house Saint Laurent juxtaposed staid tweed jackets with fetish-style catsuits when it presented its winter collection at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, February 25.
At times though, the dramatic setting for the catwalk show threatened to upstage the clothes: the models paraded through a cavernous, pitch-black space, each one bathed in a circle of light from floodlights.
Celebrities including actress Zoe Kravitz and Hailey Baldwin, the model married to performer Justin Bieber, watched the show in Paris’s Trocadero district in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
The women’s ready-to-wear collection, overseen by Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello, stuck to its theme of boldly mixing contrasting styles.
From the waist up, models were dressed demurely in pussy-bow blouses and conventionally-tailored tweed jackets. Peaking out from beneath were glistening skin-tight trousers made of what appeared to be vinyl or PVC.
Some of the outfits leaned towards the daring; in one case, a PVC corset barely concealed by a full-length coat that was worn unbuttoned.
Other outfits took a safer route, but still with a nod to fetishism. One model walked down the catwalk in a loose-fitting jacket worn with culottes that were short enough to reveal her thigh-length PVC boots.
