Gaultuer's collection paid tribute to American women "celebrating the forces of style both past and present in American pop culture. Source: Target. He wanted the exhibition to showcase what interested him, which was,"flesh, ethnicity, different kinds of global beauty, cinema, my interest with Madonna, tattoos, the Parisienne, the male as object, all that kind of thing," he said. This was the same year he launched a collection memorializing British singer Amy Winehouse, less than a year after her death.
Source: Screen Comment , Britannica. Gaultier told the Associated Press that he left ready-to-wear because "too many clothes kill clothes," nodding toward the idea that fashion was changing.
He was tired of the commercialization of his merchandize and wanted to, instead, focus on film, theatre, and couture. A proliferation of clothing.
Eight collections per season — that's 16 a year," he told the Associated Press, as reported by Business of Fashion. There aren't enough people to buy them. We're making clothes that aren't destined to be worn. The show is currently touring throughout the world. As a child, Gaultier told The New Yorker that his grandmother would let him watch broadcast performances at the Bergere theatre.
Coming soon. He followed in the footsteps of Louis Vuitton which released a collection with the streetwear brand in Gaultier's collection included logo T-shits , jackets, backpacks, sneakers, and cargo suit vests.
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Executive Lifestyle. Dominic-Madori Davis. After 50 years in the fashion industry, legendary designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is retiring. He announced his retirement via Instagram with a caption that said his Paris Fashion Week show would be his last.
Karlie Kloss and Bella Hadid walked in Gaultier's final fashion show. France's former first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sat in the front row. Throughout his career, he became known as one of the most innovative designers in fashion history, known for his corset designs and lingerie-inspired looks.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Legendary designer Jean-Paul Gaultier retired from the runway in January. Gaultier became known as one of the most innovative designers in fashion history. Gaultier said he spent a lot of time growing up with his grandmother, who lived nearby. Growing up, Gaultier loved fashion, art and design. As a young boy, he would send sketches to the famous couture stylists of the day.
In , he made his way back to Cardin, where he managed one of the designer's boutiques in Manila, Philippines. In , Gaultier launched his own line and presented his first collection with nine models at a Paris planetarium. In , Gaultier opened his own fashion house. Vogue Australia reported that he was the one who 'made garbage bags and tin cans fashionable. In , he put lingerie at the forefront of his fashion shows, with his signature corset dresses.
In , Gaultier opened his first boutique in Paris. Gaultier met Madonna in after her concert at the Parc de Sceaux, just outside of Paris. That moment changed Gaultier's life as he knew it. The pop singer asked him to design costumes for her Blond Ambition tour. This was the beginning of Gaultier as an icon, legend, and haute couture master. In , Gaultier launched his brand's first fragrance known as 'Classique' which has since become known for its body sculpture bottle design.
Later that year, Gaultier opened his haute couture house. Gaultier continues to expand his business in new directions, adding several new fragrances and launching a children's clothing line.
Kidman wore one of his dresses to accept the Best Actress honors at the Academy Awards. Cotillard dressed in Gaultier for her Oscar win in as well. Continuing to work behind the scenes, Gaultier has created more designs for stage and film. Puig, a Spanish perfume and fashion giant, bought a 60 percent stake in his company in May.
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The exhibition in Paris, which took place from April to August , was the subject of a documentary called Jean Paul Gaultier at the Grand Palais aired exclusively on Eurochannel.
Up until , he designed for three collections: his own couture and ready-to-wear lines, for both men and women. In , he staged a cabaret show that was loosely based on his life called "Fashion Freak Show" which took place at the Folies Bergere theater in Paris. He announced on 17 January that his next Paris haute couture fashion show would be his last and that he was retiring from the runway. Gaultier is known as Eurovision enthusiast, and since , he's dressed several of France's entrants.
Starting in , he co-hosted the Channel 4 programme Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes. Gaultier hosted the show until The fragrance house includes women's, men's, and unisex fragrances; a number of flanker fragrances have been released for each line. Jean Paul Gaultier's characteristic irreverent style dating from has led to his being known as the enfant terrible of French fashion.
Many of Gaultier's subsequent collections have been based on street wear, focusing on popular culture, whereas others, particularly his haute couture collections, are very formal, yet at the same time unusual and playful. The advent of his haute couture line brought him massive success in Through this collection, he was able to freely express the scope and range of his aesthetic, drawing inspiration from radically divergent cultures, from Imperial India to Hasidic Judaism.
Gaultier caused shock by using unconventional models for his exhibitions, like older men and full-figured women, pierced and heavily tattooed models, and by playing with traditional gender roles in the shows. This earned him both criticism and enormous popularity. In the spring of , his catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week featured silver-haired models again, as did the shows of other fashion designers, Chanel and Gareth Pugh.
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