Riccardo Tisci's couture offering for Givenchy Spring 2010 wasn't, in all honesty, remotely Spring-like.

And we don't care, since it was a glorious confection of night-time glamour, stuffed with enough attention to detail to make you weep.

Overall it was the 70s that pervaded Tisci's collection this time around, where one pale, frothy gown recalled those iconic vaseline-smeared images created by Sarah Moon, while another sheer-caped blue number was pure Marie Helvin.

With eyelids a-smoulder in greasy shades of dirty disco dolly, and lips ablaze with Paloma Picasso red, the models were clad in an array of jewel-hues, shimmer, ruffles, beading and plumage.

We loved the lace headgear (is it wrong to covet these as actual lampshades?) the feathered shorts, and a beautiful jet jacket so heavily beaded that it appeared to ossify model Chanel Iman like Huysman's tortoise.

In short; a collection of excess, excecuted with the most restrained of hands.

Images via Style.com