JEAN PAUL GAULTIER news and archive

Away from the frenzy, creativity shines at haute couture

It was not so long ago that haute couture was held in salons, private sitting room-style presentations that showed the collections to a Maison’s elusive, well-to-do clientele. It was unobtrusive, chic, and most of all held hush-hush behind closed doors. But those are days of yore. Just like ready-to-wear, haute couture is vying for fashion’s...

26 Jan 2023

Fashion

Ackermann’s Gaultier debut and Balenciaga is absent in Haute Couture Week calendar

Following on from its Paris Fashion Week Men’s announcement, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) has also unveiled its provisional schedule for the upcoming Haute Couture Week. The event for the spring/summer 2023 season is set to run from January 23 to 26, spanning 30 shows and one presentation, held by Iris Van Herpen....

20 Dec 2022

Business

Jean Paul Gaultier sued by Uffizi in Botticelli bottoms row

The Uffizi museum in Florence said Monday it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorised use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus", its Italian Renaissance masterpiece. Painted by Sandro Botticelli in the mid-1480s, it shows the nude goddess Venus standing on a giant scallop shell, covering her loins with her long blonde...

10 Oct 2022

People

Jean Paul Gaultier announces Haider Ackermann as next haute couture guest

Colombian-born designer Haider Ackermann has been revealed as the next haute couture guest for Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring/summer 2023 collection. Over the course of his career, the Paris-based creator has been the head of a number of prominent fashion houses, including Dior, Martin Margiela and Berluti, after he completed a five month...

30 Sept 2022

Fashion

Jean Paul Gaultier-protege kicks off Paris fashion week

Paris Fashion Week gets underway on Monday, with a protege of Jean Paul Gaultier first on the catwalk, while the luxury world awaits the French debut of Victoria Beckham. As is traditional, the first day focuses on young designers, and the opening show of womenswear spring-summer 2023 is that of 28-year-old Victor Weinsanto, a former dancer who...

26 Sept 2022

Fashion

In the footsteps of JP Gaultier, Olivier Rousteing humorously questions gender

Pointy breasts made famous by Madonna, but also female corsets with penises and moulded busts of pregnant women: the designer Olivier Rousteing questioning gender with his collection for Jean Paul Gaultier. Men in colourful skin-tight jumpsuits or sailor-patterned jumpsuits, perched on strong platform soles, opened the show on Wednesday evening...

7 Jul 2022

Fashion |In Pictures

Jean Paul Gaultier unveils collaboration with Lotta Volkova

Jean Paul Gaultier has unveiled a ready-to-wear capsule collection designed by stylist Lotta Volkova, which pays tributes to the fashion houses’ archives. The capsule collection aims to offer a stylist’s point of view, with Volkova edited and re-edited iconic and symbolic pieces of Jean Paul Gaultier’s world, such as corseted lingerie, conical...

9 May 2022

People

Olivier Rousteing confirmed as the next Jean Paul Gaultier couture guest designer

Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing has been confirmed as the next designer to take over Jean Paul Gaultier couture, following in the footsteps of Glenn Martens and Sacai’s Chitose Abe. In a series of posts on the official Jean Paul Gaultier Instagram account, Rousteing was seen taking selfies and photographs at the brand’s headquarters...

14 Mar 2022

Fashion

Jean Paul Gaultier launches rental and re-sale service

French designer Jean Paul Gaultier on Wednesday will debut 30,000 vintage pieces available for rental. The Paris-based maison will include some of its most iconic pieces and archival runway looks in a bid to embrace slower fashion. Gaultier will manage its new rental category in-house, building on a new chapter of reinvigorating and innovating...

27 Oct 2021

Culture

'I've always been a feminist': Jean-Paul Gaultier becomes curator

Paris - Having achieved pretty much everything there was to achieve in the fashion world, Jean Paul Gaultier is opening himself up to new horizons since retiring from the business last year. The former “enfant terrible” of French fashion has curated an exhibition in Paris on the power of women, taking in screen icons from Marilyn Monroe to this...

4 Oct 2021

BusinessFeatured

Glenn Martens announced as next designer to make Gaultier Couture

Y/Project creative director, Glenn Martens has been revealed as the next designer to take over Jean Paul Gaultier’s upcoming Couture Show. Announced in an Instagram post on the luxury houses’ official Instagram page, the Belgian designer is pictured with Gaultier himself following a teaser image shared yesterday providing a vague glimpse of...

24 Sept 2021

Fashion

Paris haute couture: Jean Paul Gaultier x Sacai

The conical bra and corset that made Jean Paul Gaultier a household name was re-imagined for the maison’s first haute couture collaboration since his official retirement last year. The guest creator of this season’s collection is the formidable Japanese designer Chitose Abe, founder of luxury label Sacai, who reportedly had unprecedented access...

7 Jul 2021