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Rock-chick style opened Paris Fashion Week on Sunday with a Balmain show filled with spray-on tight minidresses and gem-encrusted jackets fit for singer Chrissie Hynde at her peak.

Models with hair flowing straight and sleek hit the catwalks in dresses barely hitting their thighs in black whorled chiffon or cut away at the mid-riff to reveal flashes of black lace. Skirts were also mini, ruched in leather and slung low.

Christophe Decarnin, the designer behind the remaking of the established house of Balmain, had a similar revealing take on trousers for fall and winter 2008.

They were drainpipe tight, mostly in black and studded with zips or embroidered with crystals. One stand out pair was flame red against a cheetah skin print background.

“I think it is a great start to Paris with that show. It was sexy and full of energy. I’m sure all the girls showing the dresses were just dying to keep them,” French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld told Reuters Television.

“It is a show for girls of that generation. You know they were happy to wear it. That will be one of the favorite shows, you can just feel it.”

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