Eurovision’s Conchita Wurst star of Jean Paul Gaultier Paris Fashion Week show

EUROVISION winner Conchita Wurst has closed Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture show at Paris Fashion Week in a black and red vampire-themed gown.

Austrian singer and Eurovision Song Contest 2014 winner Conchita Wurst presents a creation by Jean Paul Gaultier during the 2014/2015 Haute Couture Fall-Winter collection fashion show on July 9, 2014 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA

EUROVISION winner Conchita Wurst has closed Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture show at Paris fashion week, resplendent in a black and red vampire-themed gown.

Gaultier said he meet the bearded Austrian transvestite two years ago, joking that he voted for the singer 73 times by text in May’s Eurovision song contest.

“She is bringing in a new genre — a man with a beard with ... virility, but a great femininity,” he said.

Conchita Wurst wears a creation as part of the Jean-Paul Gaultier Fall Winter 2014-15 Haute Couture fashion collection. Picture: Jacques Brinon

“It’s an incredible mix. It’s an act of courage and beauty to live her life the way she wants to live it,” he added.

On the penultimate day of the haute couture collections for autumn/winter 2014/15, Gaultier drew applause with looks including a completely transparent dress with just strips of blood red Swarovski crystals strategically placed to preserve the model’s modesty.

Conchita Wurst on the PFW runway for Jean Paul Gaultier. Picture: MIGUEL MEDINA

Gaultier said he had tried to scale back his usual use of colour. “It was good because for one time I didn’t do so much colour,” he told reporters backstage after the show.

“I did the black because of the black darkness etc, the white because of the innocence, of course a cliche, (and) the blood of course (was) the red,” he said.

Jean Paul Gaultier with Austrian singer and Eurovision Song Contest 2014 winner Conchita Wurst at the end of his 2014/2015 Haute Couture Fall-Winter collection fashion show. Picture: MIGUEL MEDINA

Around 30 haute couture collections for autumn/winter 2014/15 are being held in Paris this week, and are due to wrap up on Thursday.