In spring of 1952 (April 24) in the Parisian suburb of Arqueil in a completely normal family was born a perfectly normal boy. His parents did not belong to an aristocratic class: his father was an accountant and his mother – a salesperson. Jean Paul spent a lot of time with his grandmother, who later…
At the haute couture fashion week in Paris Jean Paul Gaultier introduced his cute “vampires.” At dusk they appear dressed in a black dress with a hood, pallor of slim legs flashes in the moonlight, gold chains gleam with luxury, hands are hidden in soft leather gloves, and scarlet lips freeze in a cunning grin.…
Since a long time the image of the “femme fatale”, introduced in the fall haute couture collection of Jean Paul Gaultier – the last of the great French designers, who heads the fashion house under his own name – had not differed a canon to such extend. Neither provocative, from the time of now classic…
A slight perplexity, cleverly hidden behind by the following it delight – this was my feeling after the Haute Couture show of Jean Paul Gaultier. Stripes did not surprise me at all; heavy bracelets, earrings, necklaces, collars and chains were also expected by my imagination, but there was something that was constantly slipping away and…