Jean-Paul Gaultier's Couture Vision Is Disco Katharine Hepburn, Bellboys & Day Pajamas

Jean Paul Gaultier’s latest couture collection is just the kind of vision you can sink your heart into: extremely strong women as a logical jumping-off point, a mise en scène to propel the creative story, and a perfect melange of cultural touchstones and eras, including 1930s cigarette girls, 1940s movie stars, 1970s clubgoers and, to close the circle, 1980s power-dressers.

Oh, and day pajamas, a trend I hope will never dissipate and, ideally, will usurp athleisure as the coziest way to go to the office like you actually tried to make something of yourself this morning. God, Gaultier is great! The show took place in Paris’s La Palace theater, a prolific nightclub in the late 1970s whose waiters wore Thierry Mugler and where Prince and Grace Jones once performed; the soundtrack was the classic disco that played there during the era. Silver-screen glam as interpreted in 2016 through the lens of that wild, artistic, gluttonous era makes perfect sense for a designer with the abandon of Gaultier, and furthermore, the garments seem eminently kind to the women wearing them; a bronzed trench had both mettle and give, and every Hepburn-inspired suit was impossibly chic in how relaxed it was.