Paris fashion week takes to catwalks

Flamboyant designer Jean Paul Gaultier's last ready-to-wear show will provide an emotional highlight of nine days of fashion collections due to get underway in Paris today.The 62-year-old showman of the catwalks is to bow out of ready-to-wear after nearly 40 years to concentrate on his couture collections.The designer has said the decision was taken after an "in-depth assessment" of his eponymous fashion house's future with Spanish fragrance and fashion group Puig, which has a majority stake.Gaultier's last show, which will be held on Saturday, is one of over 90 scheduled for the next week-and-a-half.After New York, London and Milan, other highlights will befirst collections by Georgia's David Koma for Mugler and France's Julie de Libran for Sonia Rykiel.