From Jean-Paul Gaultier to Chanel and Maison Margiela: Wild and wacky style at Paris couture week

Supermodel Bella Hadid has turned heads on the runway in Paris, sporting a near-naked dress and matching thong.

There were sexy sailor outfits, net-style face masks, and basically no bras on the runways at Paris couture fashion week.

Fashion went wild and wacky with a braless Gigi Hadid, 24, dressed as a sailor and her supermodel sister Bella Hadid, 23, wearing a near-naked sheer dress by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Bella flashed a high-fashion G-string under a see-through gown from Gaultier, which featured strategically-placed lace detailing.

On Maison Margiela’s red runway, there were hoof-toed shoes, while French designer Gaultier presented his final-ever show, which started with a fake funeral and featured a blow-up doll model.

Yes, this could only happen in Paris.

Bella Hadid in a sheer gown by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Picture: AFP

The intricate dress featured a mint-coloured train and black beading (and a thong). Picture: Getty Images

Paris! From the back. Picture: AFP

Bella Hadid in another Jean-Paul Gaultier creation. Picture: AFP

She was one of the supermodel drawcards of the French designer’s final-ever couture show. Picture: AFP

Hello, sailor! Gigi Hadid at Jean-Paul Gaultier. Picture: AFP

No bra required. Picture: Getty Images

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In a tweet, Gaultier said confirmed that this couture show “will also be my last”.

“But rest assured, haute couture will continue with a new concept,” Gaultier added, after already ending his ready-to-wear collections in 2014.

The Hadids, as well as Karlie Kloss, Irina Shayk, Winnie Harlow, Paris Jackson (in her first runway appearance since signing with mega agency IMG) and burlesque beauty Dita Von Teese strutted the runway for Gaultier’s show at the Chatelet Theatre.

The ever-humorous Gaultier began his final spectacle with a fashion funeral, featuring male models carrying a coffin onto the runway, while Boy George sang Church of the Poison Mind.

Irina Shayk in a Madonna-esque bustier. Picture: Getty Images

Bradley Cooper’s ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk also walked the runway wearing this dramatic ensemble. Picture: Getty Images

Sexy widow. Picture: Getty Images

Sail away, Karlie Kloss. Picture: Getty Images

Karlie Kloss made a rare runway appearance. Picture: Getty Images

Jean-Paul Gaultier staged a mock funeral in Paris. Picture: AFP

Blow up doll chic. Picture: AFP

Paris Jackson, channelling her inner hippie by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Picture: Getty Images

Gaultier’s finale was branded a “fitting send-off for fashion’s ultimate showman” by Vogue, featuring the most “impressive couture cast of the season”.

After founding his eponymous label in 1982, Gaultier shocked the fashion industry by introducing skirts and kilts to menswear, becoming known as a designer who fused gender identity and empowered women, as seen on one of his most famous pieces – the bustier worn by Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour in 1990.

Boy George with Jean-Paul Gaultier at Theatre Du Chatelet in Paris. Picture: Getty Images

Take a bow! The legendary designer presented his final full-scale haute couture show in Paris. Picture: Getty Images

FRILLS AND FACE NETS

Of course, there was more head-turning haute couture to come, with Maison Margiela also staging its show today and attempting to make face-nets and surgical gloves trends.

Yes, it’s couture and it’s not meant to be wearable but still, these were two accessories that seriously stood out as bizarre moments.

Maison Margiela creative director John Galliano unveiled his latest couture collection, dubbed “Artisanal”, with makeup by legendary artist, Pat McGrath.

Though you couldn’t always see the glossy lips behind delicate masks that covered the models’ faces.

Mozzie net or face mask chic? Picture: Getty Images

Seeing clearly is so last season. Picture: Getty Images

In his podcast The Memory of … With John Galliano released prior to the runway, Galliano said “there are too many clothes in the world”, and so the show reflected an “upcycling of values”.

“Our understanding of luxury is so different from before,” he said, according to Vogue.

“Now, we are inspired to fulfil the demands of an ethical conscience. Luxury, nowadays, is being able to buy something that fits those ethics.”

Birds of a feather. Picture: Getty Images

A Maison Margiela couture outfit that you probably won’t see at the Oscars. Picture: Getty Images

HERE COMES THE BRIDE

Earlier this week, Kaia Gerber was an OTT bride at Givenchy in a runway that did not featuring her ex-boyfriend, Pete Davidson, as the groom.

Of course, Givenchy famously designed Meghan Markle’s wedding gown and the French fashion house’s creative director Clare Waight Keller is said to be in serious talks with the royal about an ongoing role with the brand.

Waight Keller described her latest Givenchy couture designs as “my own love letter to Hubert de Givenchy because I went into the archive for this collection and looked into the history of the house from the very beginning”, according to Vogue.

A white wedding at Givenchy! Picture: Getty Images

The French fashion house famously designed the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding gown. Picture: Getty Images

A runway of Givenchy brides! Picture: AP

For the frill of it! Australian-Sudanese supermodel Adut Akech, wearing Givenchy. Picture: Getty Images

And it would not be couture week without a Chanel catwalk, which featured a goth-looking Gigi Hadid – as if she was an extra from The Craft – and Australian-Sudanese supermodel Adut Akech, who continues to rule international runways.

Kaia Gerber lead the finale at Chanel. Picture: AP

Gigi Hadid or The Craft extra? Picture: Getty Images

The supermodel was almost unrecognisable for Chanel. Picture: Getty Images

Adut Akech continued her runway reign, modelling for Chanel in Paris. Picture: Getty Images