It's easy to forget these days models are supposed to be dressed, but the Haute Couture shows in Paris are really about clothes. Expensive clothes: some of the dresses you're about to see cost more than $100,000 (yes, one). The models love the HC shows, there's much less pressure and even more bucks than the Pret a Porter shows (rumours say Elize Crombez, a complete unknown till a few months ago, made in four days about 250,000$).

It is said Dior had some of the models signed on exclusive contracts for the day (there are 5-6 shows a day), to be sure they will be relaxed and concentrated on the Dior show and not on a marathon of taxis and logistics. Of course, the models were paid as if they actually made 5-6 shows for Dior.

The following are a mix of hi-res and low-res from different shows. I hope I haven't mixed the credits. Most of the pics are safe for work, but there is of course an occasional glimpse that could be unsafe in some countries. Here you go:

---> Audrey Marnay at Chanel

---> Anastasia at Philip Treacy

---> Eugenia Volodina at Philip Treacy

---> Caitriona at Anne Valerie Hash

---> Diana Gartner at Balmain

---> Eva Herzigova at Philip Treacy

---> Eva Riccobono at Philip Treacy

---> Elize Crombez at Emmanuel Ungaro

---> Inna Zobova at Stephane Rolland

---> Jacqueta Wheeler at Ungaro

---> Jade Parfitt at Philip Treacy

---> Jessica Miller at Philip Treacy

---> Karen Elson at Jean Paul Gaultier

---> Karolina Kurkova at Givenchy

---> Karolina Kurkova at Valentino

---> Maja Latinovic at Anne Valerie Hash

---> Maria Carla Boscone at Givenchy

---> Michelle Alves at Anne Valerie Hash

---> Naomi Campbell at Gaultier

---> idem, 2

---> Naomi at Philip Treacy

---> Naomi at Philip Treacy, closing

---> Els Pinoo (from 'Vive la fete") at Libertyn Louison

---> Rie Rassmussen at Ungaro

---> Tetyana Brazhnyk at Anne Valerie Hash

---> Tetyana Brazhnyk at Philip Treacy

---> Ujjwala at Ungaro

---> And here comes the bride!