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Valentino designer in solo couture debut; Gaultier goes acid

Models wear creations for Jean-Paul Gaultier's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2017 fashion collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Models wear creations for Jean-Paul Gaultier's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2017 fashion collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) Models wear creations for Jean-Paul Gaultier's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2017 fashion collection presented in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

PARIS (AP) – All eyes in Paris were on the debut solo couture display from Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli following the move of his design partner to Dior.

And if the rousing applause was any indication, his sublime styles of ethereal goddesses were a hit for the guests that included Kristin Scott Thomas, “La Vie en Rose” actress Clotilde Courau and fashion maestro Valentino Garavani himself.

Here are the highlights Wednesday of the spring-summer 2017 collections.

VALENTINO’S GRECIAN GODDESSES

An unstructured, almost ethereal air entered the room as Piccioli’s highly-anticipated couture show began.