
Elie Saab: The Lebanese designer looked to the haunting ballet Giselle for A/W 2017, with a collection that culminated in ruffled, lace and embroidered evening dresses, paired with leather jackets and opulent coats. In a darkly romantic colour palette of dark purple, black and ocean blue, Saab also created lily motifs, which were laser cut or delicately embroidered, and use to symbolise the souls of the departed that feature in the score. Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

Ellery: Juxtaposed against the more tailored silhouettes of her A/W 2017 collection, Australian designer Kym Ellery created fur trimmed coats and fluid dresses glittering with metallic threads, swirling jacquards and colourful abstract prints. The designer also created explosion-like geometric accessories, which hung as earrings or adorned zippers. Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

Tod’s: the Italian luxury house celebrated the launch of its collaboration with tattoo artist Saira Hunjan, who has designed a range of tattoo-inspired print bags, pumps and loafers. Hunjan’s tattoo design features an illustration of a being – half lion, half dragon – and the artist was on hand at the house’s rue Rivoli location, tattooing her designs live onto its signature vachetta leather

Delvaux: The brand presented its latest style, the Cool Box, on statues dating back from the early days of its ateliers. The bags are made almost entirely out of a single piece of leather and come in a range of colours with the brand’s ‘D’ transposed as a large handle to open the bag

Balmain: Last season, Olivier Rousteing made navy blue-clad Parisians happy with a uncharacteristically understated collection composed mainly of knitted lurex pieces. Having proved once and for all that his (relative) minimalism is as effective as his maximalism, this time he decided to overcompensate. Zebra stripes! Gold chains! Strass! Calf hair! Leather! Crocodile! Not only was it all there, it also seemed to be all thrown together in most of the looks. It was bling down to the models’ lips, which were decorated with a dash of gold leaf. The collection was rife with covetable pieces: from western-inspired fringes to Amazonian elements (a crocodile jacket remarkably similar to one of Azzedine Alaïa’s most famous pieces stood out) that only Rousteing could work without the shadow of cultural appropriation lurking over him, there was plenty to choose from for classic Rousteing fans. For the rest, it was a delightfully excessive fantasy. Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

Moncler: Its latest collection, ‘Collide’, links the brand’s iconic puffer jackets with fragments of recomposed fabrics from the hand of artist/designer Greg Lauren. The limited edition collection offers unisex garments in three colourways – flaming red and blue, black and military green. The latter was presented in a large tent fully made out of Moncler’s padded fabric in the colours of the collection