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Jean Paul Gaultier unveils collaboration with Lotta Volkova

Jean Paul Gaultier has unveiled a ready-to-wear capsule collection designed by stylist Lotta Volkova, which pays tributes to the fashion houses’ archives. The capsule collection aims to offer a stylist’s point of view, with Volkova edited and re-edited iconic and symbolic pieces of Jean Paul Gaultier’s world, such as corseted lingerie, conical...

May 9, 2022

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Olivier Rousteing confirmed as the next Jean Paul Gaultier couture guest designer

Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing has been confirmed as the next designer to take over Jean Paul Gaultier couture, following in the footsteps of Glenn Martens and Sacai’s Chitose Abe. In a series of posts on the official Jean Paul Gaultier Instagram account, Rousteing was seen taking selfies and photographs at the brand’s headquarters...

Mar 14, 2022

Fashion

Jean Paul Gaultier launches rental and re-sale service

French designer Jean Paul Gaultier on Wednesday will debut 30,000 vintage pieces available for rental. The Paris-based maison will include some of its most iconic pieces and archival runway looks in a bid to embrace slower fashion. Gaultier will manage its new rental category in-house, building on a new chapter of reinvigorating and innovating...

Oct 27, 2021

Culture

'I've always been a feminist': Jean-Paul Gaultier becomes curator

Paris - Having achieved pretty much everything there was to achieve in the fashion world, Jean Paul Gaultier is opening himself up to new horizons since retiring from the business last year. The former “enfant terrible” of French fashion has curated an exhibition in Paris on the power of women, taking in screen icons from Marilyn Monroe to this...

Oct 4, 2021

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Glenn Martens announced as next designer to make Gaultier Couture

Y/Project creative director, Glenn Martens has been revealed as the next designer to take over Jean Paul Gaultier’s upcoming Couture Show. Announced in an Instagram post on the luxury houses’ official Instagram page, the Belgian designer is pictured with Gaultier himself following a teaser image shared yesterday providing a vague glimpse of...

Sept 24, 2021

Fashion

Paris haute couture: Jean Paul Gaultier x Sacai

The conical bra and corset that made Jean Paul Gaultier a household name was re-imagined for the maison’s first haute couture collaboration since his official retirement last year. The guest creator of this season’s collection is the formidable Japanese designer Chitose Abe, founder of luxury label Sacai, who reportedly had unprecedented access...

Jul 7, 2021

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Jean Paul Gaultier returns to ready-to-wear

When Jean Paul Gaultier closed his ready-to-wear line six years ago to focus on haute couture and fragrances, there was little suggestion the French designer would one day return. Despite his illustrious career, the once-dubbed Enfant Terrible of Paris fashion is returning with a pret-a-porter line launching this week. A post on the brand’s...

May 26, 2021

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25 Years later: Celebrating Jean Paul Gaultier's '95 Fall/Winter fashion show

It has been 25 years since Jean Paul Gaultier's 1995 most memorable fashion show. Vogue celebrates the anniversary by interviewing many of the people involved in the preparation and execution of his show. Jean Paul Gaultier himself, Claudia Huidobro, Carmen Dell'Orefice, and more look back at the innovative tech-meets-punk runway show, detailing...

Apr 3, 2020

Fashion

Gaultier postponing Sacai couture collection

With the couture shows now cancelled, Jean Paul Gaultier has had to delay Sacai designer Chitose Abe guest designing his next collection. Abe will now unveil her collection for Gaultier next January during the planned next couture season. Couture Week was one of several Fashion Week's to be cancelled thanks to coronavirus, in addition to Paris...

Mar 30, 2020

Fashion Featured

The best of Paris haute couture

The bar for haute couture is set unattainably high. Not just the resources required to afford the most luxurious frocks made to measure, but also the craftsmanship and painstaking attention to detail needed to create the most decorative and exquisite fashion in the world. True, it may be a distraction to focus on clothes when the headlines...

Jan 24, 2020

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Fashion legend Jean-Paul Gaultier bows out in style

Jean-Paul Gaultier has bowed out of fashion with all the cheek and showmanship with which he has lit it up over the last half century. The legendary French provocateur bid farewell Wednesday with an hour-long feelgood musical spectacular with an orchestra and a cast of hundreds to celebrate the friends and the often outrageous looks that helped...

Jan 23, 2020

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Sailor-stripes, men in skirts, and Madonna cone bra: signature Gaultier styles

When Jean-Paul Gaultier walks away from fashion design, he will leave behind a rich legacy of men in skirts, Madonna in a conical bra and lots of sailor stripes. The famous French fashion designer said he will be bowing out Wednesday with a big party to mark his 50 years in the business after his final haute couture collection hits the catwalk....

Jan 20, 2020