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PARIS — Dreadlocks, tattoos, graffiti prints and fedoras set the temper at Jean Paul Gaultier for an autumn-winter look go through with a roguish, bohemian streak on day two of the Paris menswear shows.
The French designer's first, richness-setting look was a brick wall print suit under a camel overcoat, with rust leather gloves and encounter boots, worn by a striking red-headed, moustachioed model.
Fedoras and trilby hats injected a broody, Spanish note, alternating with chunky woollen hats, tatty by a manly cast with long dark locks, lots of stubble and beards -- the find fault with being the androgynous blonde model Andrej Pejic.
Above the catwalk, in the high-ceilinged ballroom of Gaultier's Paris atelier, models climbed a scaffold and peeled off their clothes, displaying overdone tattoos in a rebellious show of virility.
"They are not little kids," smiled Gaultier backstage, when asked about his form of models -- at odds with the frail, pink-cheeked types advantaged by many of his contemporaries.
Source: AFP