No matter that rumours are swirling about creative director Hedi Slimane leaving – the Saint Laurent Fall Winter ’16 show in Los Angeles was, as always, a visual spectacle that left showgoers (and folks like us watching the show via live streaming) enthralled. Cases in point: the robotic-esque light structures in the Palladium that blazed brightly above; the star-studded front row (Bieber, Gaga, Courtney Love and Lucky Blue included); and the rock-glam model squad that strode out one by one, hands assertively placed on hips. In our gallery below, Isabel Ong highlights the looks we love and the big names who showed up.
Sequinned dresses and skirts paired with metallic boots – every party girl’s dream come true.
Billowy embroidered kaftans, couture jackets and bikers: the kind of cool cover-ups we’ll be seeing on many a street style star soon.
Tiger, leopard and zebra prints: Slimane’s animalistic-themed pieces are powerfully sexy and sensual, a formula that has proven successful time and time again for Saint Laurent.
Style icon Courtney Love and Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber
Actresses Elle and Dakota Fanning
French singer-songwriter Soko, French musician Marlon Magnee and British style star Alexa Chung
K-pop starlet Chae Lin and American R&B singer Miguel
Australian actress Miranda Kerr (left) with American model Elle Evans and Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy
Baywatch star Pamela Anderson (centre) and sons Brandon (left) and Dylan Lee – the latter starred in the brand’s film and campaign for the NYFW show.
British crooner Sam Smith with American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi
Scout LaRue and Rumer Willis (#sistergoals)
The inimitable Lady Gaga and American singer-songwriter Beck
Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz (the duo divorced in 1993)
Models-of-the-moment, siblings Lucky Blue and Pyper America Smith
Langley Fox Hemingway (yes, her great-grandfather was Ernest Hemingway)
Scream Queens star Emma Roberts and American actress/model Zoe Kravitz
Hollywood heavyweights Jane Fonda and Sylvester Stallone
American actress Jessica Alba
American actress Milla Jovovich and British film director Paul Anderson
American filmmaker/actress Gia Coppola
Asia Chow, model/daughter of restaurateur/art collector Michael Chow and former fashion designer Eva Chow
Indie rock band The Kills‘ Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince
Australian-Swedish music duo Miranda and Elektra Kilbey-Jansson
British-American actress Lily Collins and American model Patrick Schwarzenegger
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