Le freak, c'est chic

Taking 'conceptual fashion' to a whole new level, Bless brought us the first of the bizarre catwalk looks from Paris fashion week. The gold facial veil, plus baseball cap, plus red fisherman's net look comes from the dutch design duo who in 2005 published a book called 'Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness'. Brilliantly bonkers Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

Look! The ball of wool even has its own little trolley! Sonia Rykiel was celebrating 40 years of the House of Sonia Rykiel this year Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters

You may recognise this look as being distinctive to Martin Margiela's show earlier in the week - but he designed this little hairy number for Sonia Rykiel's anniversary Photograph: Taamallah Mehdi/Empics Entertainment

Hussein Chalayan's graduate collection in 1993, entitled 'The Tangent Flows', contained clothes which he had buried in his back yard and dug up again. Time has moved quickly since those halcyon days though, and nowadays Hussein likes to create space/time continuum vortexes backstage ... Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

... It's not just the dresses that were affected either Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP

Marlies Dekkers is another Dutch designer, who's actually not that bonkers. Well, normally she's not that bonkers. However, you'll be pleased to see that she bucked that trend for these two looks from Paris fashion week ... Photograph: Lucas Dolega/EPA

Mr Ed was looking a little undernourished at Marlies Dekkers Photograph: Abd Rabbo Ammar/Empics Entertainment

Beware of the hair. Maison Martin Margiela Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP

British designer, Gareth Pugh drew on the royal family for his show earlier in the week. No, we don't mean twin-sets, perms and pearls. He went for a rather more retro regal look Photograph: Bukaljo Frederic/Empics Entertainment

He has been labelled 'contraversial' and designer, Jeremy Scott certainly didn't disappoint this year in Paris. According to Ny Mag's fashion pages: "No one flies his freak flag quite as proudly as the designer does." We heartily agree Photograph: Andreea Angelescu/Empics Entertainment

Stella McCartney with artists, Jake and Dinos Chapman. And we're not saying anything else Photograph: Eric Ryan/Getty