On 22 January 2020 Jean Paul Gaultier staged his latest fashion show. With a gigantic party-show (almost 200 dresses presented during an hour-long fashion show) at the Châtelet Théâtre in Paris, the designer – who turns seventy today – celebrated his fiftieth year of activity and together announced his withdrawal from the catwalks.
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After six years from the farewell to prêt-à-porter (September 27, 2014 with the Spring-Summer 2015), the designer could only give his best with the latest Haute Couture collection. The show opened with a black coffin from which two pointy breasts protruded. On the stage, in addition to super models Gigi and Bella Hadid, Karlie Kloss, Irina Shayk, Coco Rocha, among others, the friends and muses of the stylist Amanda Lear, Dita von Teese, Rossy de Palma, Beatrice Dalle and Fanny Ardant.
The show was nothing but the culmination of Gaultier’s history as a stylistthe synthesis of 50 years of pure fun, but also of overturning the canons of beauty and unhinging stereotypes.
Everyone walked the catwalks of Jean-Paul Gaultier, the beautiful and the ugly, the thin and the fat, the young and the old. Paladin of diversity ante litteram And pioneer of gender fluidityGaultier broke down the barriers between masculine and feminine, mixing his and hers wardrobes, empowering women, designing skirts for men.
Gaultier’s fashion has been democratic, honest, irreverent from the very beginning. Over the years he has amazed, at times scandalized, without ever having a deliberately (and gratuitously) provocative intent.
Born on April 24, 1952 to a cashier and an accountant, Jean-Pual Gaultier spent his childhood in Arcueil, just two kilometers south of Paris, in a gray suburb that leads him to dream of a different world.
Her life revolves around her beloved and eccentric grandmother, with a passion for clothes and fortune-telling skills. Jean-Paul as a child of her watches her sew clothes for her and with her scraps of fabric he creates clothes for her soft toys. He is fascinated by her perfume bottles and the corsets he keeps in a trunk.
The young Gaultier does not study fashion, but he has no doubts about what he will do when he grows up. First by Pierre Cardine, then by Estreles and later by Maison Patou, the young Gaultier opens his own tailor shop in 1976marking the beginning of a path that will lead him to establish himself as l’enfant terrible of fashion.
Gaultier is a multifaceted artist. He loves theater, art, cinema and music. And he forms fruitful partnerships with directors, actresses, singers. One above all: Madonna. The pop star turns to Gaultier for hers Blond Ambition World Tour of 1990. He creates them guêpière with the stitched cone cups entered the collective imagination. The two together write whole pages of the history of fashion and pop culture.
The maison today it continues its path with a new haute couture project: each new collection is the result of a collaboration with a guest designer. The first invited to work side by side with Gaultier were Sacai’s Chitose Abe and Glenn Martens.
In the gallery below we have collected ten curiosities about the irreverent designer, forerunner of genderless and inclusive style, creator of styles that will remain forever in the history of fashion.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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