About five or six weeks ago I made it to the last day of the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. The place was swarming with fashionistas, tastemakers, passive fashion fanatics, photographers, eccentrics and anti-fashionistas alike. The exhibit had many of Gaultier's signature designs up on display. Some of these legendary threads were draped over animated mannequins, expressed in video format, original Gaultier sketches or featured in monumental photographs.
You didn't need to wander around for too many seconds before you found the obvious element that separates Gaultier from other haute couture designers. What I found particularly inviting about Gaultier's designs is the philosophic mindset that he projects on his avant-garde style of fashion. He is an avant-garde trail-blazer in the fashion world when it comes to pushing the stylish envelope into transcendental androgynous terrain. Gaultier is a master at blending and merging the sexes through fashion. He melts away stringent rules, mindsets and borders and unifies everything through the fabric of space, time and fashion.
You didn't need to wander around for too many seconds before you found the obvious element that separates Gaultier from other haute couture designers. What I found particularly inviting about Gaultier's designs is the philosophic mindset that he projects on his avant-garde style of fashion. He is an avant-garde trail-blazer in the fashion world when it comes to pushing the stylish envelope into transcendental androgynous terrain. Gaultier is a master at blending and merging the sexes through fashion. He melts away stringent rules, mindsets and borders and unifies everything through the fabric of space, time and fashion.
I respect individualities and I like particularities. I mix and match, collect, twist, and crossbreed codes. Past, present, here, elsewhere, masculine, feminine, remarkable, humdrum—it all coexists. — Jean Paul Gaultier