If It's Hip, It's Here (Archives): paris fashion week

As the latest Ready-to-Wear collection by fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier walked down the runway during Paris Fashion Week, some might have felt they were tuning into MTV circa 1984.

Inspired by eighties Pop singers who have influenced fashion over the past three decades,Gaultier presented various pieces ranging from tuxedo styled pantsuits to corsets and fishnets, accompanied by era-appropriate music such as Bowie's 1980 hit "Fashion" and Madonna's "Vogue"

Nods to The Culture Club (Boy George) with Japanese-like flowing kimonos and David Bowie a la Ziggy Stardust circa 1972 with glitter platforms marched down the runway:

...along with androgynous and beautifully tailored suits reminiscent of both Grace Jones and Annie Lennox:

The Material Girl (Madonna) was fully represented in looks harkening back to her 1985 movie, Desperately Seeking Susan and Michael Jackson's fedora, glove and jackets were made an appearance as part of the Spring 2013 collection.

Satin and leather baseball jackets and matching knickers brought up flashbacks of ABBA and Amanda Lear made a cameo appearance as the show came to a close.

The hair, make up and styling deserves a bow as well, that's for sure.

See the entire Jean Paul Gaultier 2103 Spring RTW collection here.

Fashion designer Franck Sorbier put on more than a fashion show at Paris Fashion Week, he put on a narrative light show.

The French designer used light projection on the backdrops and upon a single white gowns to recount a French fairytale written in 1695 by Charles Perrault with his newest Autumn/Winter Haute Couture collection.

Donkey Skin (Peau d'Ane)is the story of a widowed king set on marrying his own daughter, who escapes his clutches by demanding a series of impossible gowns; the color of the sky, moon or sun.

Two dresses represented canvases for the high-tech presentation. An off the shoulder white ball gown and a sculptural black dress with the pointed headdress of the sorceress:

As the model clad in the white gown represented the Princess, images flashed on both the backdrop and the gown itself to tell the narrative of her desire to flee.

There's a happy ending, though. As she falls in love with a prince, a beating heart appears on a blood red gown:

..transforming into a white dress with butterflies fluttering up and away, into the blue skies and beyond:

“The collection is a bridge between the past, the present and what the future could be,” explained Franck, who had teamed up with the software giant Intel for the high-tech side of the project.

“It’s about how with a little imagination you can bring together two worlds that are diametrically opposed,” he said.

“And it is about how we can take haute couture into the future to ensure it survives.”