PARIS: Stars turned out in throngs for Saint Laurent’s menswear show, the highlight of the last day of fall-winter 2014 Paris shows which included Lanvin, Paul Smith and Thom Browne.
Salma Hayek turned up at the very last minute for the Saint Laurent Paris show, attracting attention because she was dressed head to toe in men’s clothes.
But the “Frida” star who wore an androgynous dark “smoking” jacket, white shirt and menswear tie from a previous Saint Laurent menswear show, pulled the bold look off with style. She twinned it with a demure beehive.
Hayek was clearly invoking the legacy of the late, great Yves Saint Laurent who broke the mold as one of the first designers to blur the lines between men and women’s dressing with “Le Smoking.” Today’s designer Hedi Slimane, too, has continued the house’s androgynous spirit and put men’s codes in his women’s creations.
Hayek was accompanied by her husband and CEO of Kering, Saint Laurent’s owner, Francois-Henri Pinault.
Eighty-six-year-old French music icon Juliette Greco also watched Slimane’s show from the front row wearing a big, black vintage YSL hat.
Salma Hayek turns up in YSL menswear in Paris show



