“High fashion is historic and romantic, and even a few of my collections play on these qualities,” Simone Rocha instructed Vogue. Her first high fashion assortment for Jean Paul Gaultier (held within the designer’s Parisian headquarters, fittingly as soon as a ribbon manufacturing facility) brings components of modernity and actuality to the venture so as “to push it ahead for immediately.” And on immediately’s runway, the recognizable codes of her work have been alive and properly, from the crystal gildings that make-up artist Thomas de Kluyver glued to eyebrows, lids, and lips (paying homage to the Irish folklore-inspired seems he created for Rocha) to the pink ribbons Rocha wore tied into her personal hair for her finale stroll.

The present opened with a set of clear jewel-encrusted nails designed by artist Ama Quashie, together with floating bow earrings tied from angel-thin strands of hair. The subsequent look was accessorized by a pair that delivered the optical phantasm of completely pinned area buns towards the mild waves and bends that hair artist Holli Smith created on fashions. De Kluyver’s faceted make-up seems have been undeniably profitable at punctuating—with out overpowering—items draped from materials that ranged from structured woven silks to illusion-thin tulle.

Tess McMillan and Amelia Grey’s lips have been every pursed with black jewels, and Alex Consani and Kristen Owen wore crystallized bridal gazes. The impact was ethereal and stuffed with coronary heart, very similar to Rocha’s perspective she shared with Vogue’s Liam Freeman moments forward of the presentation: “Couture is seen as one thing that’s untouchable, however it’s all about soul–that’s what makes it particular.”