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The designer Jean Paul Gaultier announced this Friday, January 17 that his haute couture fashion show scheduled for Wednesday in Paris would be his "last", after 50 years of career, while specifying that he was going to embark on a " new project " with his House.
The announcement comes in the middle of Fashion Week, just before the fashion shows open from Monday. Six years after putting on his ready-to-wear line, Jean Paul Gaultier therefore closes another chapter. “ On January 22, 2020, I will celebrate my 50th career in fashion with a major Haute Couture fashion show at the Théâtre du Châtelet. It will also be my last parade, ”said the designer.
But the former "terrible child of fashion" wants to reassure: " The house of Couture Gaultier Paris continues, with a new project which I am the instigator and which will be revealed to you soon ".
This show celebrating 50 years of my career will also be my last. But rest assured Haute Couture will continue with a new concept. pic.twitter.com/PJCC53K4tm
Jean Paul Gaultier (@JPGaultier) January 17, 2020The 67-year-old French stylist, who had made his debut with Pierre Cardin in particular, has been an essential figure in the world of couture since he shook up dress codes in the 1980s. He is the author of iconic creations like the conical cup bustier worn by Madonna, or her famous sailor sweater and her striped sweaters, a memory of her grandmother that he " dressed her in blue ".
Since his first collections, Jean Paul Gaultier has the art of mixing genres, genders, eras, the banter of popular streets and the distinction of beautiful neighborhoods. This accountant's son, who grew up in Arcueil (Val-de-Marne), near Paris, and who was very young introduced to sewing by his esthetician's grandmother, thus created skirts for men in 1984, because for him " a man does not wear his masculinity on his clothes, his manhood is in his head ".
( With AFP )
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