Saint Laurent mixes tweed with fetish-style catsuits for Paris show<br /><br />Luxury fashion house Saint Laurent juxtaposed staid tweed jackets with fetish-style catsuits when it showed its winter collection at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The women’s ready-to-wear collection, overseen by Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello, stuck to its theme of boldly mixing contrasting styles.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The fashion house was founded by Yves Saint Laurent, widely credited with revolutionising women’s fashion. Saint Laurent died in 2008; he was succeeded as a creative director first by Hedi Slimane, and then, from 2016, by Vaccarello.<br /><br />The brand is owned by the Kering SA luxury goods conglomerate, which also owns the Gucci and Balenciaga labels. <br /><br />Watch the video to see the full collection<br /><br />Follow STYLE on:<br />https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style<br />https://www.facebook.com/scmpstyle<br />https://www.instagram.com/scmp_style<br />https://www.twitter.com/scmp_style<br />https://www.youtube.com/c/SCMPStyle<br />https://www.dailymotion.com/scmp_style
