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Jean Paul Gaultier x Ludovic de Saint Sernin
Jean Paul Gaultier Eyes Ludovic de Saint Sernin for Next Couture: Sources
The Paris-based designer has won acclaim for his gender-fluid, sensual and individuality-driven take on fashion.
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Does Jean Paul Gaultier have his eye on Ludovic de Saint Sernin, the Paris-based designer whose signatures incorporate low-slung pants with corset lacing in lieu of a front zipper?
According to sources, de Saint Sernin has been in talks to create a one-off couture collection for the Puig-owned fashion house.
The designer and Gaultier officials could not immediately be reached for comment over the weekend.
De Saint Sernin would develop the eighth guest couturier at Gaultier after Nicolas Di Felice, Simone Rocha, Rabanne’s Julien Dossena, Haider Ackermann, Olivier Rousteing of Balmain, Diesel’s Glenn Martens, and Sacai’s Chitose Abe.
Following his retirement from the runway in , Gaultier came up with the idea of the couture house inviting diverse designers to interpret his vast and eclectic oeuvre, achie
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WHEN IS A FASHION Display A FUNERAL? When it’s Jean Paul Gaultier.
Take his ultimate couture presentation: It was a sort of death, or a spoof of death, or a spoof of spoofs of death.
It put the poof in spoof.
Gaultier started the show with a funeral. The stage was filled with models in mourning black. Pallbearers in black veils carried a coffin on stage. It wasn’t clear what had died. Fashion? Does it ever die, or does it come assist undead and undeader?
When the coffin opened, a model in a pale babydoll dress strutted out and started the show. What followed was a lesson in what to wear to funerals. Among the suggestions: rooster feathers, inflatable cone bras, sponges stitched together into skirts. There were camouflage gowns sewn from tons of tulle. They signaled a grand idea: that fashion could conceal you from death. He could have gone further with it: Why not wear grave dirt? Why not wear disease?
The coffin looked appreciate it had a mirror on the inside of the lid—a coffin-cum-changing room. Death, he seemed to be saying, isn’t
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A Study on the Post-modernism Characteristics of the Perfumes ‘Le Classique’ and ‘Le Mâle’ of Jean Paul Gaultier
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ABSTRACT
Perfume, which is a completion of the fashion, has expressed designer’s soul. Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier called the ‘Enfant Térrible’ of fashion industry, is foremost the fashion world by his own unique and boundless imaginative works. Jean Paul Gaultier’s works are equivalent to having perception of the Post-modernism since the characteristics of Gaultier fashion can be explained as antiform, combination of differences and sexuality with humorous ambiance. This study is aimed at investigating how his Post-modernism is shown in his perfumes, understanding his artistic philosophy. This study is based on Gaultier’s perfumes: ‘Le Classque’, ‘Le Mâle’ and their flankers. This analysis focuses on Frangrance, Package/Naming and Advertisement which are three significant elements of the perfume. The followings are the results of this analysis. The fragrance is based on oriental family which connotes sexuality
Jean Paul Gaultier
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Dubbed fashion’s enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier launched his first prêt-à-porter collection in and founded his own couture house in Emerging as a designer in the s, he developed his own dress codes that reflected the changing nature around him. The openly gay Gaultier uses his designs to tackle gender and transgender issues through androgynous, gender-bending styles, meanwhile delving even further into some of the darker areas of the sexual revolution. Always provocative, he addresses issues of multiculturalism by bringing ethnic diversity to the Paris runway. Despite the gritty and sometimes controversial context of his collections, the clothes remain beautiful, superbly fashioned with the finest dressmaking and detailing skills.
The exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk includes haute couture and prêt-à-porter designs created between the mids and , along with numerous sketches, archival documents, fashion photographs, and video clips that spotlight Gaultier’s collaboratio