Westwood, Gaultier & GallianoThey have been labelled fashion's "enfants terribles" for bringing politics, live animals or models splashed in fake blood to their catwalks.
And although they are now all beyond the age of 40, Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood showed no sign on Tuesday of becoming any tamer.
Britain's Westwood transformed her catwalk into a Stone Age cave, sending out models in high furry hats, wrapped in knitted cardigans, with bone pendants dangling from their necks.
The 65-year-old Westwood, who has kept her edge since her bondage-inspired creations for the Sex Pistols punk band in the 1970s, said she had been inspired by the image of a "cave girl"....
France's Gaultier, the creator of pop star Madonna's famous cone-shaped bustier, picked up on the tartan theme on Tuesday, sending out models with feathers in their hair, wearing checkered coats with small ribbons at the back.
Emerging from smoke onto the catwalk, a model in a bright red jacket surprised editors at the beginning of the show as she kicked her legs and spinned across the runway in a Celtic dance.
"You don't have to be able to jump and dance like that to wear my clothes," Gaultier, 54, joked after the show, which also featured long velvet skirts and fur-trimmed coats....
The swashbuckling Galliano, 46, who has based his past collections on themes ranging from ghosts to geishas and goths, presented a collection for Christian Dior in the spirit of his Japan-inspired haute couture show earlier this year.
Models paraded out in lampshade-sized straw hats, wearing large-collared jackets with origami-pleats at the pockets. Actress Mischa Barton looked on as girls in jackets with tube-shaped shimmering sleeves strutted down a white staircase....more at Reuters
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