'That b**** ruined my walk!': Model explains why she PUNCHED topless feminist protester who stormed Paris Fashion Week

A Liverpool model tipped to be the next Kate Moss has described the moment she punched a topless feminist who attacked her as she strutted down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week.

Anfield-born Hollie-May Saker, 18, was modelling for Nina Ricci at a show in the Tuileries gardens yesterday when two half-naked female protesters invaded the stage, screaming.

As one of the women, from the radical feminist group Femen, grabbed Miss Saker's arm and tried to lift her skirt, the model lashed out, striking her squarely on the nose. Despite being badly shaken by the unwanted hiccup, Miss Saker continued her run as if nothing had happened.

After the show, the 18-year-old tweeted: 'FEEEEEEUUUUMIN. THAT B**** RUINED AND HAD HER SAGGY T*** IN MY FACE.'

'My Scouseness came out': The pair sprint towards Hollie-May Saker (left), but as one grabbed her and tried to lift her skirt,  the model lashed out, striking her on the nose

Speaking after the incident, she said: 'I punched her – I didn’t mean to but she grabbed my arm and I just wanted to get her off me.

'My Scouseness came out a bit but I wish it had come out a bit more. Thinking about it now I wish I’d pushed them both off the stage because they ruined my favourite show.'

The screaming women invaded the stage with feminist slogans daubed across their chest just as Miss Saker took to the catwalk.

'I was the 19th girl out of the catwalk and I could hear screaming behind me,' she said. 'The next thing I just saw half-naked women with black marker pen scrawled across their bare chests and that’s when she came at me.

'That b**** ruined my walk': Miss Saker later tweeted angrily about the incident

'As she grabbed my arm she lifted my skirt exposing me [so] I pulled my arm back with such force that I landed a punch square on her nose.

'I was so angry but I knew I had to be professional so I carried on walking with a bit of sassiness. 

'I had been looking forward to the Nina Ricci show for so long, whether I was modelling in it or not, it’s such a beautiful collection.

'I was really worried to come backstage but nobody said anything – I felt bad the moment it happened and I was very shaken up by it.'

Miss Saker, who started modelling at 16, said despite the ordeal she has no plans to let it dent her ambition of becoming a world famous supermodel.

'I think if it had happened two years ago I would have run straight off the catwalk,' she added. 'It could have been worse, I could have fallen over.

'It was amazing but messed up. Things like this just make me feel so grateful, happy and grateful.

'I’ve worked so hard and deserve it, so hopefully I’ll get some good karma. I’ve got to model for some great designers and I can’t believe I got to walk for Burberry. I’m so proud to be British and a Scouser.'

Although the twosome were quickly removed, they were on the runway long enough to show off their slogans - 'model don't go to brothel' and 'fashion dicterror' [sic] - and to discomfit the unfortunate models and the gobsmacked front row.

But despite the best efforts of the activists, after two days of young talent and obscure names, Paris Fashion Week finally roared into life as behemoths Lanvin, Carven and Balenciaga unveiled their vision for S/S14 in the French capital.

Lanvin's Alber Elbaz showed a collection that was replete with his trademark figure flattering designs, which this time around, came in shimmering metallic pink silk, rich deep violet lace and sequinned grass green.

Elbaz has clearly been watching the Great Gatsby too, with flapper-style dropped waists and embellished trim cropping up on dresses while skirts were knee-length and scattered with sequins.

Day three also saw fashion pack heavy-hitters take their place on the front row for the first time with Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, French Vogue editor, Emmanuelle Alt, Anna Dello Russo and Thailand's Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana all turning out to support Elbaz.

'Feeeeuuumin': Angry Miss Saker posted a string of angry tweets after the incident to tell the world what happened

Off you go! As the gobsmacked fashion pack look on, the protesting pair are hauled off the catwalk by a guard while the Nina Ricci show continues around them

  Security man grabs topless gatecrashers at Nina Ricci show

Balenciaga meanwhile, drew a stellar crowd that included Wintour, former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, and billionaire fashion tycoon François-Henri Pinault.

They were joined by some of the world's most stylish celebrities including Pinault's wife Salma Hayek, singer MIA and Dazed & Confused co-founder, Jefferson Hack.

But while the star quotient delighted the waiting photographers outside, inside the Observatoire, where Balenciaga's young creative director Alexander Wang unveiled his vision for next summer, all eyes were on the catwalk.

Sacre bleu! Models calmly continue at Nina Ricci as the two topless protesters from FEMEN are unceremoniously hauled away by security

Triumph: Lanvin owner Shaw Lan Wang (centre) celebrates backstage with Alber Elbaz and Vogue Japan's Anna Dello Russo after a successful show

Stunning: Elbaz's trademark passion for colour was very much in evidence at Lanvin

Purple reign: Lanvin's Alber Elbaz is a dab hand with dresses as this lacy crowd pleaser demonstrated

Sequinned: A heavily embellished 1920's flapper style dress on the runway at Lanvin

In bloom: Blowsy cabbage roses were the print du jour at Carven but creative director Guillaume Henry couldn't resist livening things up with purple camouflage print

Alternative: Henry also unveiled a more low key dove grey, cream and mint version of the print

Youthful: The purple camo print re-emerged to add a shot of newness to a 70s mum skirt

Roses: The distinctive floral print appeared on bags, brightening the odd all black ensemble

WHO ARE FEMEN?

Founded in 2008 by Anna Hutsol, Ukraine's FEMEN is a feminist protest group that specialises in controversial topless protests against everything from sex tourism to fashion.
The group claims to have around 140 members and has a history of attempting to disrupt fashion week, last appearing outside the Versace couture show in Paris earlier this year to protest against the use of 'anorexic models'.
Famously, the group were also behind the bare-breasted ambush of Russia's President Putin at a Hanover trade fair in April, where he was taking in proceedings alongside German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

In true Wang style, the aesthetic was sporty and short, with carefully crafted round-shouldered dresses stopping well short of the knee and tiny tailored shorts made youthful with monochrome lace print.

But though the lacy arabesques and curlicues were well executed, as far as Wang is concerned, next summer is set to be the summer that floral prints return with a vengeance.

His were small and perfectly-formed, coming in inky navy and bright pink, superimposed over a complementary palette of blush pink, pale blue and classic neutrals, albeit with the odd flash of purple to liven proceedings up.

And Wang wasn't the only one to conclude that purple and floral is a winning combination. Over at Carven, creative director Guillaume Henry combined both motifs with his customary aplomb.

Unlike Wang, however, Henry's florals were an altogether more literal affair with delicately rendered pansies and blowsy cabbage roses liberally strewn across round shouldered jackets, short A-line skirts and neat dresses with first lady friendly capped shoulders.

Not content with florals, the Frenchman also threw a vivid dose of camouflage into the mix, with a low key pea green and dove grey version that appeared on slouchy jackets contrasting with a daringly bright hot pink and purple variant that featured on a popstar-friendly cross-strapped dress.

Not everyone was so keen however. At Balmain, creative director Olivier Rousteing decreed that double houndstooth was the only print worth being seen in next summer, although did let a few flowers creep in woven into a delicate sugar pink lace blouse.

Balmain's trademark embellishment was also very much in evidence, not least in a skirt that was made entirely from wide-spaced be-crystalled mesh and a similar top that was bravely worn by Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley.

As ever, there was much that was big, bold and bling, whether chunky gold cuffs or a lightweight knitted dress in mint green that came with a contrasting fluffy marabou skirt. 

Make-up free Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wows the catwalk

Model citizens: Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley made a rare catwalk appearance for Olivier Rousteing at Balmain alongside Georgia-May Jagger

Double houndstooth: Rousteing's new favourite print cropped up several times during the show

Featherweight: A fluffy ostrich feather skirt provided a colourful counterpoint to a sleek knitted bodice

Embellishment: Rousteing showed a fabulously blingy wrap skirt that was more crystal than fabric

Rainbow nation: Veteran designer Manish Arora's stunningly bright collection successfully brought the exuberant colour of India to Paris Fashion Week

Pink ladies: Arora loves hot pink and once again, the colour was splashed across the catwalk accompanied by the designer's trademark lavish embroidery

Bold: Colourful abstract print in bright orange, tomato and buttercup yellow also featured

Round of applause: The veteran designer emerges for a well earned standing ovation

Getting wiggy with it: Models sported beautifully made ice blond be-quiffed hairpieces

Bright and beautiful though Balmain was, no one does colour quite like India's Manish Arora and so it proved when the veteran designer unveiled his pitch for our summer wardrobes.

Orange, hot pink, lilac and turquoise shimmered down the runway turning the Paris show into a spectacle that wouldn't have looked out of place in Mumbai - an effect heightened by the maestro's creative use of embroidery and print.

Typically quirky accessories, including a treasure trove of chunky gold bangles and beaded cuffs, combined with the eccentric models sporting quiffed white blonde wigs rounded out Arora's rainbow of a show.

Arora's colourful vision, sadly, is relatively rare in Paris and at Irfe, the French capital's determinedly chic brand of minimalism staged a return thanks to designer Olga Sorokina's decision to stick almost entirely to unsummery camel and black.

Although the label, founded by Russian emigres in the 1920s, has a long association with Paris, some distinctly Muscovite touches were apparent in the thigh-scraping hemlines and occasional dusting of silver sequins.

Unconventional though Sorokina's embrace of summer black was, she wasn't the only one with the Paco Rabanne also boasting a sprinkling of ensembles in the inky hue.

Rabanne, however, also chose dusky rose, pistachio, cobalt and a hint of warm white to go with his wet-look patent black mini-dresses, deploying sugar shades on neatly tailored shirts with fluted space age sleeves, carefully cropped trousers and daring bandage dresses.

Not surprisingly for the man who supplied the costumes for 1960s space classic Barbarella, Rabanne couldn't resist a splash of silver and unleashed it on a delicate chain metal dress as well as spaghetti strapped silk tops.

While Rabanne's latest effort wasn't stellar in every way - mint flares anyone? - the strength of day three's offering suggests Paris is well and truly gearing up for lift off.

Back to black: Irfe creative director Olga Sorokina unveiled an unseasonally inky collection for S/S14 enlivened with the odd dusting of silver sequins

Space age: Paco Rabanne's new look had the odd intergalactic touch include flared shoulders

Metallic: The Barbarella costume designer included a flash of his favourite silver

Wet look: Rabanne gave his collection a sporty edge by introducing a splash of slick patent leather

Fashion power couples: US Vogue's Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Talley arrive for Balenciaga where they shared the FROW with Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault

Looking food: Singer MIA plumped for a typically colourful ensemble for her appearance at Balenciaga

Eccentric: Vogue Japan's Anna Dello Russo picked a typically quirky outfit for Balenciaga

Heavyweight: Fashion heavy hitter Carine Roitfeld was among those to turn out for Balenciaga