A steaming vehicle wreck sits on the runway during the Givenchy show designed by Riccardo Tisci at 'La Halle Freyssinet,' during Paris Fashion Week in Paris on 29 September. The designer fuses African-inspired draping with kimono-style silhouettes for an elegant Givenchy Spring Summer 2014 collection.

Tisci calls the collection “a crash between African and Japanese cultures”; his metaphor made quite literal by a showy pile-up of vintage cars set up on the runway and the use of “tribal” drummers playing live for his soundscape.

The womenswear collection took subtler visual cues from how the Masai women of Kenya drape their clothes. Tisci’s attention to draping was then integrated elegantly with distinctly Japanese-inspired silhouettes and kimono-style sleeves.