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 Black-and-white stripped dresses - ingeniously cut to float down
the catwalk from the front while revealing a cinched silhouette
from behind - mingled with bold pink or yellow pant suits in the
collection, unveiled during Haute Couture week.
Fringes on boots, trousers, dresses and sleeves twisted and
turned to the 1960-inspired soundtrack as models strutted down
the runway.
Some struck over-the-top poses as they went, like model Coco
Rocha, who had spectators swooning as she took to the catwalk
with her two-year-old daughter, dressed identically in an
asymetric baby-blue gown.
Ninety-five-year-old Cardin, who gave the self-styled bad boy of
fashion Gaultier his first stint as an apprentice in 1970,
surveyed the show from the front row, with actress Marion
Cotillard and singer Paloma Faith also in attendance.
"It's my beginning. Why not come back to that funny period that
was the 1960s," Gaultier told reporters after the show, adding
that he had been in awe of Cardin's futuristic, geometric
designs when he was still a teenager. "Even before I started
with him I was looking at magazines, at TV programs on what he
was doing."
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"I was very frightened when he arrived (at the show), I wondered,
'What will he tell me?'" Gaultier added. "I was like a little
student of fashion."
Gaultier, 65, stopped producing ready-to-wear collections in 2014 to
focus on his haute couture line and perfumes. His brand is owned by
Spanish perfume group Puig.
The couturier, known for his irreverent and playful style, is
preparing a musical stage production, the Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion
Freak Show, which is billed as a pop extravaganza showcasing
eccentric characters and episodes from his life.
The show, which will run from October to December at the Folies
Bergeres music hall in Paris, will feature new Gaultier designs as
well as some referencing his most famed creations, such a conical
bra worn by singer Madonna on tour in 1990.
(Reporting by Sarah White; Editing by Peter Graff)
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