Paris Fashion Week went out not with a whimper but a bang, as Yves Saint Laurent closed off the ten-day calendar with a starry celebrity front row that ran the gamut from stage to screen to catwalk queen.

Model Kate Moss, a longtime muse of the storied French brand, arrived in a chic black Smoking jacket and trousers, worn braless with a transparent polkadot blouse. 

Her model daughter, Lila, seemingly always in tow, wore an off-shoulder beige mini dress.

Actress of the moment, Zoe Saldana, was another guest of honour.

Having worn a Saint Laurent gown to collect her Oscar earlier this month, she swapped it for a tartan romper suit teamed with a co-ordinating tartan trench – a trickier look, but she pulled it off. Do not try this one at home.

But the overriding dresscode for the evening was the suit. Call it office siren, executive realness or a tribute to Annie Hall, but trouser suits – worn with shirts and ties – are proving to be a trend with legs. And also shoulder pads.

‘A woman wearing a suit is anything but masculine,’ Saint Laurent famously said in 1966, after scandalising Paris by dressing models in his Smoking jackets.

Linda Evangelista, Rosie Huntington Whiteley and Emily In Paris star Phillipine Leroy Beaulieu would agree.

Paris Fashion Week went out not with a whimper but a bang, as Yves Saint Laurent closed off the ten-day calendar with a starry celebrity front row 

Linda Evangelista wore wide white trousers under a boxy navy double blazer, striped shirt and brown tie

Charlotte Gainsbourg wore an oversized chequered blazer over a floral-patterned mini skirt with a billowing train

Actress of the moment, Zoe Saldana, was guest of honour having worn a Saint Laurent gown to collect her Oscar earlier this month

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley donned an oversized chocolate-brown suit with a leather bomber jacket and 70s-style shades with her blonde locks styles in a slick-back bun