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Jean-Paul Gaultier (born
April 24 1952, in
Arcueil,
Val-de-Marne) is a
French fashion designer and past television presenter.
Biography
Gaultier never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age.
Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in
1970.
His first individual collection was released in
1976 and his characteristic irreverent style dates from
1981, and he's long been known as the
enfant terrible (bad boy) of French
fashion. Many of Gaultier's following 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. Jean-Paul Gaultier produced sculptured costumes for
Madonna during the nineties with her infamous cone-bra for her
Blond Ambition Tour and designed the wardrobe for her
Confessions Tour in 2006, as well. Gaultier has also worked in close collaboration with
Wolford Hosiery. He promoted the use of
skirts, especially
kilts on men's wardrobe, and the release of designer collections.
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.
At the end of the
1980s, Gaultier suffered some personal losses, including his lover and business partner
Francis Menuge, who died of
AIDS-related causes.
Gaultier designed the wardrobe of many motion pictures, including
Luc Besson's
The Fifth Element,
Pedro Almodóvar's
Kika,
Peter Greenaway's
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's
La Cité des enfants perdus (
The City of Lost Children). He currently designs for three collections: his own couture and ready-to-wear lines, as well as the newly relaunched clothing line for
Hermès, a French leather goods company well-known for their equestrian background, scarves, and expensive and difficult to obtain handbags.
Gaultier has designed a number of the costumes and outfits worn by rocker
Marilyn Manson, including the outfits for Manson's
Golden Age of Grotesque album. In France the costumes he designed for singer
Mylène Farmer gained much attention. In spring 2008 he signed a contract to be again the fashion designer for her
tour in 2009.
He's also well-known for his exhibit in
New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art known as Bravehearts - Men in Skirts.
Perfumes
In addition to being a fashion designer, Jean-Paul Gaultier is known for a popular line of
perfumes. His first fragrance, Classique, a women's floral-oriental, was introduced in 1993, followed by Le Mâle for men two years later. Both were highly successful, and Le Mâle is now the number-one men's fragrance in the
European Union based on sales; it also holds a strong market position in
Australia and the
United States. His third fragrance, the women's fragrance Fragile, was introduced in 2000; however, it's now in limited distribution due to poor sales. In 2005, the unisex "fragrance for humanity" Gaultier² (pronounced Gaultier to the power of two) was launched (except in Canada, where it was launched in January 2006, and the United States, where it was launched in August 2006). Most recently, Jean-Paul Gaultier's latest men's fragrance, Fleur du Mâle (a pun on
Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du mal), was launched in April 2007. All Jean-Paul Gaultier perfumes are produced under a long-term license by Paris-based Beauté Prestige International, a division of the Japanese company
Shiseido that also produces fragrances for
Narciso Rodriguez and
Issey Miyake.
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