Pete Doherty becomes a style icon at Paris Fashion Week

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Paris Fashion Week 1032AM GMT 09 March 2010

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We know him well from the much-documented tales of drug abuse; the steady visits to rehab; the justice appearances; the dirty nails, greying skin and unfair clothes; and the now-ended attribute with Kate Moss.

Despite starting a disturb for small Trilby hats, there was small justification of any abiding seductiveness in style.

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Yet, the Paris prêt-a-porter deteriorate last night, witnessed the launch of a "new" Pete Doherty, a Kinks-style "dedicated supporter of fashion", a little competence say.

Doherty gave one of his "guerrilla gigs", on Pariss "fashion boulevard" on the Right Bank, the ultra-chic, entrance Montaigne, to applaud the opening of the new Joseph store, hardly a cigarette butts throw from Christian Dior, Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana, et al.

Standing on an unpretentious stage, opposite a large Union Jack, Doherty looked the really indication of a squires immature son.

He was dressed, improbably, in a three-piece, olive tweed suit, the coupler and waistcoat lined in scarlet, the trousers hold up with out-of-date braces. The fit was done in Harris tweed, woven on handlooms on the remote isle of Lewis and Harris, piece of Scotlands Western Isles, additionally well known as The Hebrides.

The fit was written by Marina Maclean, 40, who was innate on Harris, and whose grandfather was once a tweed-weaver.

A connoisseur of Cardonald College, she is formed in Glasgow and functions as a couture marriage skirt designer.

The three-piece suit, made-to-measure for Doherty, was piece of a new conform partnership with a immature Glaswegian tailor, Camille Lorigo, of Che Camille.

"Pete was the initial customer," pronounced Maclean. "We done it specifically for tonight."

Doherty wore the fit with a (clean) gauze on his right-hand, and accessories by Chanel shirt, tie, slot handkerchief, and hat - that came pleasantness of his former fianc and Babyshambles collaborator, the indication and singer, Irina Lazareanu, who put in a conform "Mayday" call to Karl Lagerfeld.

Doherty, producer and singer, hold the assembly preoccupied in an hour-long set, concomitant himself on a smashed Gibson, with marks from The Libertines/ Carl Barât epoch and Babyshambles days, as well as his own songbook, together with For Lovers, Cant Stand Me Now, Last of the English Roses, What a Waster and Delivery.

Two ballet dancers, in scruffy tutus and Union Jack bodices, spasmodic pirouetted in the background.

The nation male escort see appears to be only the initial theatre in Dohertys conform makeover. He has proposed work on a pattern partnership with the immature Central Saint Martins connoisseur and stone nroll jeweller, Hannah Martin, that Joseph hopes to be offered inside of a couple of months.