Stars and designers bare it all at Paris fashion week

<p>Donatella Versace opened the Paris haute couture Saturday night with stripper boots and column dresses. </p>

Donatella Versace opened the Paris haute couture Saturday night with stripper boots and column dresses. 

PARIS (AP) — At Paris' high-octane couture week, what happens on the catwalk is only half the story.

Here are the highlights and tidbits of the first day of haute couture collections, including show reports for Atelier Versace and Dior. 

KATE HUDSON SHOWS DERRIERE

Underwear is so passé (ask Rihanna).

Hudson's was just the latest name added to the list of stars to forgo underwear in the name of fashion.

The Oscar-nominated actress triggered hysteria by posing in a bright red cocktail dress from the new Atelier Versace Spring 2015 Collection with a cutout that demurely exposed her buttock. Knickers were nowhere to be seen.

VERSACE

Donatella Versace played it relatively safe this season with a collection of gowns that explored primary colors and asymmetrical circular cutouts.

Knee-high stripper boots and split leg column dresses added the necessary dose of sexuality for the house famed for its unapologetic celebration of the "glamazon."

Though the first looks lacked the accustomed exuberance, Donatella found her footing with a series of shimmering black disc gowns that seemed to evoke the vintage '90s heyday of her late brother, Gianni, who was murdered in 1997.

DIOR'S BACK TO THE FUTURE

With "Star Wars" actress Natalie Portman in the front row, the space-age theme — as imagined from the climate of the 1960s space race — was particularly prescient at Dior's show.

The thickly embroidered paillette body suits in stripes evoked how observers in the Sixties imagined what space-age fashions might be — as Russia battled with the U.S. for dominance in space during the Cold War.

But there was no nostalgia is this vibrant collection — it was replete with irony and fun.

One of the best details was the hair. Model's hair was collected in a chignon, from which a hoop hung, holding in place a disembodied cosmic fake blond ponytail.

Barbarella would be proud.

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