Celebs, models mingle at Paris shows.

Byline: THOMAS ADAMSON

PARIS -- It was color-meets-menswear at Paris' celebrity-filled Fashion Week this Saturday, with Solange Knowles chatting to James Bond ''Skyfall'' star Naomie Harris at Vivienne Westwood before heading on a plane home.

Meanwhile, French actress Emmanuelle Beart confessed she had fallen in love with Lebanese designer Elie Saab.

If Yves Saint Laurent could liberate women by dressing them in men's tuxedos, then why shouldn't fashion do the same, and reverse, for men?

That's the question Vivienne Westwood explored in her bold and sexually ambiguous fall-winter collection.

A man in a huge billowing gold bustier dress came alongside a female model in a shouldered menswear ''zoot'' suit -- worn in the '50s as a mark of rebelling against traditions.

If women dressing in menswear is the norm these days, she seemed to say, then why is it that men dressed in womenswear still raises eyebrows?

The thing was the entire collection seemed to raise eyebrows -- albeit in a very good way -- for its anarchistic and sometimes unfathomable gusto and humor.

Tinsel lined the catwalk, like the debris left after a crazy '70s disco, mirrored by Hula...

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