After his retirement, he surprised the world with a complex Japanese collaboration during "Paris Fashion"

Gaultier .. "a new concept" confirms that he is a "rebellious fashion child"

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French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier has always been known, since the seventies of the last century, as the "rebellious child of fashion", for all his out-of-the-ordinary designs and innovations. To transform his display platform into messages of freedom and love.

In January of last year, after five decades of fashion madness and innovation, Gaultier announced his retirement from fashion design, and that was through a tweet via his account on Twitter, in which he said: “This show will celebrate 50 years in this profession, and it will also be my last show, But rest assured, Haute Couture will continue, but with a new concept,” which he finally came up with during Paris Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2021-2022 for haute couture fashion.

Finally, the house announced its “new concept,” which Gaultier mentioned in his tweet, an idea that has lingered in the designer’s mind for many years. The 1990s”, in which a different creative director is chosen for each season, collaborates with the house and provides his personal interpretation of the brand’s haute couture collection, as Gaultier assures everyone of his usual rebellion against the familiar in the world of fashion once again, by turning the task on designers different for each season.

Japanese madness

Despite the variety of names and their abundance, the designer chose to be the founder of the Japanese brand “Sakai” Chitose Abe, the first collaborator of the house, because of its extreme precision in execution, and the clear tendency to create a new material, by mixing two different materials, two qualities that combine The designers, who made the cooperation between them smooth, as the designer described it to the site «Vogue», saying: «It was very intimate, it was more of a friendly request, through an invitation to tea, it did not look like an agreement to merge the names of two companies together. Some, but only cooperation between two people,” describing the experience as “amazing,” noting that she and Gaultier share the same level of perfection in the implementation, “which made the process smooth.”

Abby's touches were distinguished by the luxury hidden under the puffy skirts, which consisted of dozens of delicate ruffles, which made the skirts dance freely, as well as her own interpretation of the famous Gaultier striped blouse, which was cleverly intertwined with silk organza.

complex update

Abby's admiration for Gaultier's work made her not need to search, or use the house's archive, so the first look was an updated version with a completely new angle of Gaultier's famous 80's creation of the funnel bra, which was mixed with a women's corset inspired by a men's striped suit, over a sheer skirt, over pieces of transparent fabric. Which looked like an extra layer of tattooed skin that the model wore, in a collaboration with tattoo artist Dr. Wu.

The collection was characterized by the complex blending of ideas, cuts and materials, with many of the iconic touches that the house has known for over the years, whether through the adoption of the woolen “tartan” fabric with checkered and checkered prints and its combination with transparent chiffon, or the tendency to strong “bank” fashion styles, Or restructure and imagine men's suits that turned into high-waisted dresses, or raincoats, which turned into puffy skirts.

With huge "gibbons", while Irish knitted woolen blouses known as "Aran Sweater" overlapped, as if they were interconnected patches that appeared through a chiffon dress with many lines and cuts inspired by the old Parisian "haute couture" times, and a lot of rebellion, complexity and intelligence.

Gaultier accompanied the group's designer, Chitose Abe, to the catwalk at the end, who wore a shirt bearing the words "Infant Triple" or "rebellious child", which is the name Gaultier was known by, a phrase that also appeared during the show, and the designer surprised the crowds gathered in front of the balcony of the headquarters The house salutes them.

• Gaultier: “This show will celebrate 50 years in this profession, and it will also be my last show."

• The collection was characterized by a complex blend of ideas, cuts, materials, and many of the iconic touches that the house has known for over the years.

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