The couple presented a sultry collection inspired by French fashion icon Jacqueline de Ribes and the Eighties heyday of couture.

Tamara Ralph’s day-to-evening wear decoded to clothes the average woman would have no use for before cocktail hour.

Looking to the East for inspiration, Tamara Ralph showed a collection hinged on ornamentation, with ostrich feathers, chain mail and silk floss thread-work.

The set was meant to telegraph the brand’s transition from couture to urban, everyday clothing or the shift from the fantasy of couture to the reality of rtw.

Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor was the bride in a glittering show inspired by light and motion.

Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo offered plenty of contemporary, urban daywear options, along with signature red carpet-worthy gowns.

A flower power theme continued to infuse the collection.

Throughout, the collection oscillated between dazzling ball gown and sassy lingerie deluxe.

“It’s looking promising,” the actress told WWD, sitting front row at the Ralph & Russo couture show.

Tamara Ralph left no doubt that this was an old-school collection for women who attend grand balls in big castles.

Tamara Ralph seeded her sculpted Fifties party dresses with glossy embroideries of vines and blooms.

London-based Ralph & Russo took a cue from interiors photographer Massimo Listri — especially the details and light in his images.

Showing for the first time in Paris, London-based Ralph & Russo went for Forties and Fifties couture glamour, bringing screen stars of yore to mind.