Jean Paul Gaultier, born 24 April 1952, is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. In the past, he has hosted the television series Eurotrash.
Rossy de Palma modeling for the Riders and Horsewomen of Modern Times (or Mad Max) collection, Women’s Prêt-à-porter fall/winter 1995-1996.Rossy de Palma is a Spanish actress. In 1988 she starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and became a model and muse for designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier.
A photograph taken for the exhibition at Fashion Institute Technology. The exhibition collects various kinds of high fashion pieces that are used to symbolize a character’s transformation, vanity, power, or privilege.
A simple fashion illustration and a technical sketch for Jean Paul Gaultier two-piece evening ensemble.
His work has been characterized by a stylistic consistency and in many of his collections, #women adopted masculine attire, or sometimes he even shocked the audience by having men wearing skirts, corsets, and dresses with trains..
Even though the media believes that in Jean Paul Gaultier’s work, he mostly challenged the then-standard views of fashion and the popular notions of gender, and thus, his work had a lot of edgy street and punk influences. But to me, Jean Paul Gaultier fuses classic and modern high-end garment.
The combination of velvet and fur is commonly used in lots of our daily used items. Such as gloves, shoes and even Santa Claus‘s costume!
Materials such as velvet and fur are also symbolic materials for Haute Douture. Here is Princess Caroline of Monaco’s best fashion moments as she celebrates her 57th birthday in royal blue velvet gown
Also the dress reminds me of Cruella De Vil, villain from 101 Dalmatians. Since Cruella De Vil is also a France originated cartoon character it would not be a surprise if Cruella De Vil was jaen Paul Gaultier’s muse
For the two pieces evening dress, I believe that Jean Paul Gaultier was inspired by the “Little Black Dress”. Although its silhouette has changed over the years, but the Little Black Dress remains supremely chic any has created many classic image for many famous actresses.
Patterns for making the Little Black Dress was quite popular in the 50s and the 60s. They were commonly sold, and easy to be purchased. Nowadays, you could only find this paper patterns on Etsy or some other online vintage clothing stores.
Here is a picture tutorial on the fur collar pattern making. For this tutorial, you will need faux fur fabric, lining fabric, muslin, thread and hand sewing needles
You have great research materials here. The order of slides seems a little random. When you create an image gallery, think of it as telling a story in pictures. Let one piece of info led to the next.
You have great research materials here. The order of slides seems a little random. When you create an image gallery, think of it as telling a story in pictures. Let one piece of info led to the next.