Jean-Paul Gaultier Pics

Jean-Paul

Gaultier

24 April 1952

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Arcueil, Val-de-Marne

Taurus

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Madonna`s Blond Ambition Tour

French

Costume Designer, Costume and Wardrobe Department, Soundtrack

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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. 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. Afterwards, he worked with Jacques Esterel in 1971 and Jean Patou later that year, then returning to manage the Pierre Cardin boutique in Manila from 1974-`75. His first individual collection was released in 1976 and his characteristic irreverent style dates from 1981, and he has 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. Jean-Paul Gaultier`s bread exhibit, Paris, 2004.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. Has designed the costumes for Kylie Minogue`s international KYLIEX2008 tour. The late iconic Hong Kong singer Leslie Cheung hired Gaultier to design eight different costumes for his last concert tour before his death.

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Jean Paul Gaultier (French: ), born 24 April 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French haute couture fashion designer. In the past, Gaultier has hosted the television series Eurotrash.

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