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Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2011: Can You Do The Can-Can? (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 01/26/11 01:25 PM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:30 PM ET

Never one to disappoint, Jean Paul Gaultier put on quite the Haute Couture in Paris on Wednesday, mixing punk rock with the cabaret on the catwalk. The Telegraph reports that the show began without any music at all:

The only sounds to be heard in his cavernous showroom-turned-theatre (once the French communist party HQ), was the clip-clop of high heels on the PVC catwalk, and the calm, studied voice of the "announcer" who introduced each design by number, together with a detailed description of the silhouette and materials, in French, and then in English.

But for the finale, Crazy Horse performer Psykko Tico kicked up her heels to Offenbach. And of course male model Andrej Pejic walked in a wedding dress, then Gaultier strutted down the runway wearing a mohawk.

Check out what looks like a good time.

Gaultier with Farida Khelfa
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Never one to disappoint, Jean Paul Gaultier put on quite the Haute Couture in Paris on Wednesday, mixing punk rock with the cabaret on the catwalk. The Telegraph reports that the show began without an...
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01:24 PM on 01/30/2011
Get a look at many more of the fabulous pieces from this collection here:

http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-cancan-little-punk-lotta.html
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Fortune27
Loving the ride...
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05:06 PM on 01/26/2011
What fun!
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CHMB
What's long and brown and sticky? A Stick.
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04:34 PM on 01/26/2011
Now I want to wear a can-can costume. hmmm...
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Charlotte Etoile
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04:14 PM on 01/26/2011
I love this moment.

http://eyeshadowgovernment.blogspot.com/2011/01/jean-paul-gaultier-springsummer-couture.html
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jeana21
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03:53 PM on 01/26/2011
Gautier's clothes always make me smile.
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wm1066
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03:15 PM on 01/26/2011
In the original Can Can of the 1890,s the women didn't wear panties, it was just all that frilly fabric fanning the phermones and the scent from the women, a very heady show.
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The price of bootstraps grows ever higher
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02:14 PM on 01/26/2011
Bra! VO!
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Kendall Hawley
Great stories, told well. www.blogfreako.com
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02:07 PM on 01/26/2011
I want to go to there.
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Arjala
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01:57 PM on 01/26/2011
male models selling ugly overpriced designer rags to the rich women; priceless
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