Jean Paul Gaultier. Date completed: Spring 2011. Brief: 20th Century Fashion Designers - Presentation. In this two part assignment, we were asked to pick two fashion designers and create a Powerpoint on each. Presentations must tell their story - their biography, design aesthetic, achievements, etc. My second designer: Jean Paul Gaultier.

1. Jean Paul Gaultier
Grand
Couturier

2. Biography
❖ Born April 24, 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-
Marne, France.
Early Influences
❖ 1976: Sketches published in Mode Internationale, a French fashion
magazine.
❖ 1976: Launched his design career under his own label with Mayagor.
▪ A ‘prodigy’ of fashion design.
▪ At age 17, sends his design sketches
to Parisian designer Pierre Cardin, who
immediately hires him as his design
assistant.
▪ Spends a year designing for Jacques
Esterel before joining the House of
Patou in Paris. For three years, he
works with and learns from other
talented designers, such as Angelo
Tarlazzi and Michael Goma.

3. Moments of Significance
• 1985: Introduces man-skirts.
• 1987: Receives the coveted French Designer of the Year Award.
• 1988: Launches a lower-priced sportswear line called Junior Gaultier.
• 1990s: Designs sculptured costumes for Madonna, including her infamous cone-bra.
• 1997: Launches his own haute couture collection, displaying it for the first time in a
Paris show. It included both mens and womenswear.
• 1999: Hermes invests $15 million in Gaultier’s business.
• 2000: CFDA presents him with the International Award.
• 2005: Introduces the unisex “fragrance for humanity”, Gaultier.

4. TheBadBoyoftheFashionWorld
“Labeled an enfant terrible early on, [Gaultier] has designed collections based on Hasidic Jews and the sealskins of
Inuits and showed T-shirts emblazoned with a crucified Christ. With his spiky bleached-blond hair and MTV-
generation antics (he once sent disapproving editors live turkeys), he's cultivated a flamboyant public persona that
was magnified when he co-hosted the nonsensical show Eurotrash in the nineties. Theatrics aside, Gaultier is
credited with pioneering innerwear as outerwear, promoting ethnic and gender-bending dress, and popularizing
the use of stretch fabrics in his signature skintight bodysuit…” –Style.com
Design Philosophy:

5. Design
He was influenced
by his grandmother,
a hairdresser and
tarot card reader.
Bold colors, animals, and exaggerated
details reflect his fascination with Africa.
“I am for
equality of
gender.”
His avant-garde designs drew
heavily from the street scenes of
London and Paris and pop culture –
funky, playful, and extraordinary.

6. Spring 09 RTW
Inner Wear as
Outer Wear.
Fall 10 Couture
Gender
Hybridization.
Spring 05 Couture
Tribal & African
Influence.
Fall 03 RTW
Streetwear.

7. His Look
flamboyant , bright , theatrical colors - - - dark leathers

8. The Fifth Element, Manson, & Blond Ambition

9. Perfumes
♦ 1993: First fragrance, Classique, is introduced.
♦ 1995: Releases Le Mâle.
♦ 2000: Releases the woman’s fragrance Fragile.
♦ 2005: Releases the unisex “fragrance for humanity”,
Gaultier.
♦ 2007: Launches Fleur du Mâle and Eau de Cologne
Fleur du Mâle.
♦ Latest fragrance is Madame.

10. Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-
Paul_Gaultier
http://www.answers.com/topic/jean-
paul-gaultier
Gaultier with
Beth Ditto.
http://www.jeanpaulgaultier.com/http://www.essortment.com
/jean-paul-gaultier-44766.html
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/designerdirectory/JPGAULTI
/seasons/
http://www.instyle.com/instyle/fashiondesigners/keymoments/0,,
20226065_jean-paul-gaultier_20237620,00.html
http://www.infomat.com/whoswho/jeanpaulgaultier.html
Anne Chen