Paris Haute Couture Week 2013: The Wackiest Fashions [PHOTOS]

While haute couture can offer some gorgeous moments in fashion -- like the Chanel show, for example -- some of it is just plain wacky.

Don’t know what haute couture means? Join Jennifer Lawrence, who told E! News on the red carpet at the 2013 Golden Globes that despite wearing Dior Haute Couture, she had no clue either but “had to say it.”

Unlike the properly termed ready-to-wear, haute couture, which means “high fashion” in French, is made to order for customers on an individual basis. Fabrics are of ultra-luxe quality and often times have enormous amounts of detail with much sewing involved.

Since it began in the 18^th century, haute couture is actually protected by law in France by the terms of the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris. In fact, the commission each year chooses the only “true haute couture houses” that can label their clothing “haute couture” as part of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. The commission also directly oversees piracy, foreign relations and press, and advertising and runs a couture school to teach the trade.

For the 2013 Haute Couture season, which ran from Jan. 21 to Jan. 24, fashion houses who are correspondent members, like Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli, Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier and Maison Martin Margiela showed their latest haute couture creations.

But, as haute couture goes, some looks ranged from quirky to out-of-this-world weird to utterly ridiculous. Here’s a look at some of the craziest offerings at Paris Haute Couture Week.

Is this a dress or a playhouse?