In pictures: Paris fashion week

1 of 8 Japan's Naoki Takizawa brought a veritable bouquet of creations to this week's ready-to-wear Paris fashion show.

2 of 8 Fellow Asian designer Andrew Gn, of Singapore, preferred to put a touch of frost in the air with his fine motifs.

3 of 8 The ghosts of Art Nouveau appeared to haunt Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto's creations.

4 of 8 But the show was about the spring and summer of 2005, and the frocks and hats of the UK's John Galliano said it all.

5 of 8 Jean-Paul Gaultier's creations positively radiated the heat of a long hot summer in the south.

6 of 8 Vivienne Westwood proved as artful as ever after 30 years of putting punk on the catwalk.

7 of 8 The gothic make-up and dyed hair never seem to go out of fashion, like the designer herself.

8 of 8 John Galliano took a bow, too, in a Chaplin outfit appropriate for Brit fashion's enfant terrible.