ART OR FASHION ? TO BE WORN, SHOWN, OR TO BE SEEN - that is the question.....
I was still working when Jean-Paul Gaultier( 1952-) launched his first perfume. A bottle of a women’s bust tightly fit into a corset. Madonna? Then to go even further, he used a tin box for the outer packaging rather than a refined cardboard box. I guess the profession just didn’t know which way to look. His fashion was well over the top but now perfumes…..then came the male perfume and all the eccentricities that move in this world. That all happened as I seem to remember in 1991 but I could be out by a couple of years, months or days. It doesn’t matter. This man was going to rock the industry…..and he did. He is perhaps one of the most important fashion designers of recent decades but the question is, is he a fashion designer or an artist? Paco Rabanne, plastic and metal dress: 1969 He’s a self taught man and took refuge when growing up in his grandmother’s beauty salon. He loved designing, he loved costumes so it’s not surprising that before long he was working i