Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.

PARIS–Fresh from the recent opening of his 35 year retrospective at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Montréal last month, Jean Paul Gaultier ended the fall couture season yesterday afternoon by reaffirming his commanding vision of the Parisian elegance with a sense of humor, espoused throughout his career.

With a slight nod to the intense creative period of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russe in Paris in the 1920s, the collection highlighted Mr. Gaultier’s classic silhouette and tailored based clothes–a style of Parisian chic that has always been central to his work. He has altered how we view traditional clothing. At any Gaultier couture show, there’s always the masterly tailored pinstripe pantsuit–now in a dark navy double breasted jacket, with a white tutu at the hips, or a cropped double breasted version with a cape–and the omnipresent trench. Here, the infinite permutations of the trench resulted in a cropped grey wool coat, a brown leather and silk style, and a pale yellow silk coat dress with flowing chiffon in the back.