Kanye West was in the audience as Vivienne Westwood unveiled her latest show at Paris Fashion Week.

The British legend enlisted the help of young school children who painted the designs on her new collection.

Based around the theme of ecological crises her project, entitled Chaos Point, was based on a group of freedom fighters trying to avert the planet from disaster.

She said: "I got these little children to help me and I gave them the brief. I said 'Imagine there are these soldiers fighting in the jungle and after the war, they didn't want to go home. It was a really scary experience'."

The show began and ended with a model on stilts. Models' faces were also daubed with red and yellow make-up and legs encased in thick knee-high socks and teetering heels.

Westwood rose to fame in the 1970s as a self-styled Queen of Punk.

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