What a shock when designer Jean Paul Gaultier announced a few days before his Haute Couture show that it would be his last! The ‘Bad Boy of Fashion’ has been at it for over 50 years and has decided to take another direction. Closing his ready-to-wear line a few years …
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Delivering two collections a year, Jean Paul Gaultier makes sure that it is really top notch and original. He delivered this season with his signature Brittany stripes and rich silks in deep colors. All around a beautiful collection! Hurray, JPG! photos: vogue
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A theater show called “Fashion Freakshow” about the life of designer Jean Paul Gaultier just opened at the legendary Folies Bergere in Paris. Featuring music from Kylie Minogue, Madonna and others, as well as costumes designed by the ‘l’enfant terrible de mode” himself, the show is to have many vignettes …
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Jeremy Scott was totally in a Madonna/Jean -Paul Gaultier state of mind for this collection…. which I LOVE LOVE LOVE! I can’t believe it’s been almost thirty years since “Express Yourself” by Madonna was released. That album made an indelible mark on me and helped me shape who I am …
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Jean Paul Gaultier showed us ‘How to do Zat’ with fall couture collection. The collection had everything. It included a golden legged tricycle bride, bare breasts, sharp shoulders, and midgets. No….no midgets this time. Sorry, Stefon. Jean-Paul is only designing two couture collections a year, so he has more time …
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Bon Voyage, bitches! Gaultier, who is strictly doing only haute couture now, took us on the Love Boat on the shores of Brittany. Fun fact: The traditional striped navy shirts worn by sailors is particular to the Brittany region of France. So thank a Brittanic sailor for those jail house …
Read More »At Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture show, it was all butterfly-themed. Either Gaultier has been watching ‘Silence of the Lambs’ (I know it’s really a moth, just go with me here) or he’s been jamming to Mariah Carey’s Butterfly one too many times. Either way, it was a beautimus collection, …
Read More »It was all about leather motorcycle jackets at Gaultier’s latest collection. Could it be that Jean-Paul is reveling in ‘Teen Beach Movie‘??? Is he trying to tell us he’s not a surfer but a BIKER??? Is this collection cryptic of his questionable taste for really, really bad Disney TV …
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