PARIS (AP) — Equestrian met beekeeper on Tuesday at Courrèges, where Nicolas Di Felice turned a helmet-veil silhouette into a recurring motif inside the Carreau du Temple in Paris’ Marais.

The Belgian designer has made a career of reviving the once space-age house with a club-ready edge, and this spring at Paris Fashion Week was no exception. Minimalism was the grounding note: black boots morphing seamlessly into socks in myriad variations, silver wrist clasps and sheeny black shades punctuating a sanitized, stripped-back mood.

But Courrèges is never just sterile. Sex appeal pulsed beneath the surface — a coatdress unzipped nearly to the crotch, bare skin flashing beneath. A shoulderless black mini trailed a floor-skimming train that licked behind the model with studied nonchalance.

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