Jean
Paul Gaultier High-Waisted Brown Summer Wool/Silk Cropped Pants Size 42 / 8
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measurements to your own garments
Fabric: 80% Wool 20% Silk
Condition: Excellent
Wear: Consistent with age and use
These pants look great with
the Jean Paul Gaultier brown top, Lafayette New York top and Morisane tie dye top, all sold separately
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Gaultier grew up
in a suburb of Paris. It was his maternal grandmother, Marie Garrabe, who
introduced him to the world of fashion. He never received formal training as a
designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an
early age. Peirre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an
assistant in 1970. Afterwards he worked with Jacques Esterel in 1971 and Jean
Patou later that year, then returning to manage the Pierre Cardin boutique
in Manila for a year in 1974.
His first
individual collection was released in 1976, and his characteristic irreverent
style dating from 1981 has led to his being known as the enfant
terrible of French fashion. Many of Gaultier's following collections have
been based on street wear, focusing on popular culture, whereas others,
particularly his haute couture collections, are very formal yet at the
same time unusual and playful.
Although most
people found his designs decadent at the time, fashion editors, notably Melka
Tréanton of Elle, Claude Brouet and Catherine Lardeur of French Marie Claire,
were impressed by his creativity and mastery of tailoring and later launched
his career.
Gaultier caused
shock by using unconventional models for his exhibitions, like older men and
full-figured women, pierced and heavily tattooed models, and by playing with
traditional gender roles in the shows. This earned him both criticism and
enormous popularity.
Gaultier was the
creative director of Hermes from 2003 to 2010.
In 2012, he was
named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film
Festival. This is the first time a fashion designer was called to sit on a jury
at the festival. He also designed the dress that Anqqun wore as she
represented France during the grand-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest
2012 held in Baku Azerbaijan. That year, he also participated in the Cali
ExpoShow in Cali (Columbia), showing his extense collection of perfumes and all
classic clothes.
Up until 2014,
he designed for three collections: his own couture and ready-to-wear lines, for
both men and women. At the spring/summer 2015 show he announced that he was
closing the ready-to-wear labels to focus on haute couture.
Gaultier
produced sculptured costumes for Madonna during the nineties, starting
with her infamous cone bra for her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, and
designed the wardrobe for her 2006 Confessions Tour.
Gaultier has
designed a number of the costumes and outfits worn by rocker Marilyn Manson,
including the outfits for Manson's The Golden Age of Grotesque album. In
France, the costumes he designed for singer Mylene Farmer gained much
attention. In spring 2008 he signed a contract to be again the fashion designer
for her tour in 2009.
In 2008, he
designed the white and silver mermaid dress that Marion Cotillard wore at
the 80th Academy Awards, when she won the Oscar for her performance in La
Vie en Rose.
He has designed
the costumes for Kylie Minoque's international KylieX2008 tour, as well as
the iconic Hong Kong singer Leslie Cheung, who hired Gaultier to design eight
different costumes for his last concert tour in 2000.