Bio de jean paul gaultier
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Jean Paul Gaultier Biography
1970
The young Gaultier sends his fashion sketches to well-known fashion designers without being asked. These find favor with Pierre Cardin, who hires him as an assistant.
1971
He works as an assistant to chief designer Michael Goma at Jean Patou, but returns to Pierre Cardin two years later.
1976
Gaultier presents his first own collection.
1978
The designer founds Jean Paul Gaultier SA.
1986
Gaultier opens his first boutique in Paris.
1989
The designer succeeds in entering the charts with an excursion into the world of music and the song "How to do that".
1990
Gaultier designs the stage outfits for Madonna's Blond Ambition tour. The conical bra cups on a gold and pink corset dress are still legendary today.
His partner dies as a result of HIV infection.
1993
He launches the first perfume for women, followed in 1995 by the first fragrance for men, "Le Male" — still one of the world's best-selling fragrances.
1997
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Jean-Paul Gaultier
(1952-)
Who Is Jean-Paul Gaultier?
At age 18, Jean-Paul Gaultier joined the house of Pierre Cardin before moving on to Jacques Esterel and Patou. The debut of Gaultier’s own collection was in 1976, but he did not officially launch his own design house until 1982. His style is known to challenge standard views of fashion. He collaborated with Madonna in 1990 to create her infamous conical bras. In 2003, he became head designer at Hermes where he worked until 2011. Diet Coke appointed Gaultier as its new creative director in 2012.
Early Years
The only child of a bookkeeper and a cashier, Jean Paul Gaultier developed a taste for fashion at a young age. He spent much of his childhood with his maternal grandmother, and found inspiration in her closet - her corsets in particular fascinated him. He even once made a bra for a stuffed bear - a childhood artifact that was featured later in an exhibition of his work.
At only 13 years old, Gaultier came up with desi
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since his very first collection. Many of his collections show women
adopting masculine attire, or men wearing skirts, corsets, and
dresses with trains. "People reacted much better to me in the UK,
which was where it was all happening," he told *The
Telegraph* in 2010. "Jean Muir was big at the time here and she
was fabulous, as was Zandra Rhodes. You could see the craziness in
the British people, but inom couldn't move because I'd already started
in Paris."
- In September 1985 he opened his first boutique on 6 Rue Vivienne, Paris.
- He became internationally recognised when he designed the
costumes for Madonna's Blond mål tour in 1990. The conical
bras and basques he created for her now rank among some of the most
iconic designs in history. Gaultier has since said he had no idea
that they would become so important. "I was a fan of Madonna's so I
was pleased to collaborate with her for that reason - not because
it would be g