Go bold or go home: Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris brings on the drama

A model presents an Alexis Mabille creation for Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris. Photo: AFP

Designers often pull out all the stops when it comes to couture. More prints, more embroidery and more tulle – or rather, in the general sense of it all, more drama.

The recent Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris illustrated just that. The big names of the industry went all out to make sure that fashion’s return to normalcy is nothing less than an exciting extravaganza.