Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion Week - The Associated Press

With her caressing velvets and silks, embroideries, sequins and tiny silver studs, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri may not have reinvented the wheel, but she certainly embellished it beautifully on the first day Monday of Paris Fashion Week.

The stark tableaux photographs documented Baker’s extraordinary life and her many roles: as member of the French Resistance, civil rights activist and humanist as well as dancer and performer.

According to Dior, a series of coats, a take on bathrobe styles depicted “the cozy, intimate dressing room that precedes (Baker’s) entrance on stage.” In couture terms they were undeniably beautiful, if somewhat restrained.

Williams, who found fame playing the feisty Arya Stark, told The Associated Press that “I find the Dior woman to be something to really aspire to,” calling the clothes “powerful” for women.

Kylie Jenner, who sat front row at Schiaparelli also wearing a 3-D lion’s head and a gold snakeskin bag, was later criticized online amid accusations of glamorizing animal cruelty.

An in-person presentation accompanied the collection film “Carte Blanche,” in which she teamed up with a French artists called Julie Gautier — exploring how female beauty can be used as a form of control.