John Galliano never forsakes creativity for practicality on his catwalk events, and this week sent out models in skirts splashed with fake blood and painted skeletons to the sound of whips and clanking chains in a dramatic opening to Paris fashion week on Monday. “Red is the new libertine … Dior is the new erotica”, read the blood-red information sheet handed out at Christian Dior’s spring-summer 2006 haute couture collection. The models had bleached white hair and dark rims painted round their eyes. One had 1789 tattooed on her neck, the year of the French revolution.

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Even Galliano himself can’t help but mesmerise his audience when he takes his bow at the end of the show. The eccentric British designer appeared dressed in black leather and flaunting a fencing sword. American Vogue’s editor at Large Andre Leon Talley dubbed the show as Several outfits were see-through or revealing to show off the structure of the dresses and the detailed embroidery which take skilled French fashion workers days to sew and stitch.