Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2012-13, Paris

Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2012-13, Paris

Fashion show - opened with a flurry of winter whites – skater skirts gathered in vast swathes around the thighs below fitted jackets that flowered to wide peplums under huge shawls. Heel-less ankle boots or Mary Janes worn over woolly socks added to the futuristic, always slightly spooky element, before stunning silk and leather dresses featuring embellishments of unfurling petals in baby pink or white allowed the colour to slowly bleed to centre stage.

White on black doily printed coats with stiff collars and zips up the back, fur coats smothered in pompoms that then expanded to huge ostrich feather skirts and coats - which in turn grew into frothy marabou or tulle jellyfish dresses that seemed to breathe of their own accord.