Jean Paul Gaultier French Designer-Stylert.com

Jean Paul Gaultier has been at the forefront of fashion for over twenty years. His bleached hair may be his rademark but his style reflects more London street scene than Parisian couture.

Jean Paul Gaultier's bleached hair may be his rademark but his style reflects more London street scene than Parisian couture. Jean Paul Gaultier has been at the forefront of fashion for over twenty years. He was born on April 24, 1952 in Arcueil, France, he was only child who spent his youth struggling to escape the influence of his parents, who were both accountants and who hoped that their son would become a Spanish teacher. The future designer was greatly influenced by his grandmother, Marie Garrabe, a hypnotist and practitioner of alternative healing who encouraged him to pursue the unmanly pastimes of sketching and costume making. Gaultier first realized the impact of his sketches when he was punished by his school teacher for drawing Folies Bergère showgirls. Gaultier had no formal fashion training. Instead, he sent hundreds of his sketches to various couture houses. Pierre Cardin was impressed by the work and hired Gaultier as a design assistant in 1970, on the young man's eighteenth birthday. Gaultier worked for a number of other French design houses before launching his first collection under his own name in 1976. He has lived through Eurotrash - the Nineties sleaze-fest TV show - Madonna in his conical bra on her Blonde Ambition tour in 1990, several successful eponymous perfumes, and even created corsets for men. Possibly his finest hour, however, is in haute couture where season after season he delivers flights of fantasy. In 2003 he took on the job of creative director for Hermes - bringing a vigour and humour to that most classic of brands.
Although technically brilliant, Gaultier has always taken great delight in parodying the fashion establishment to great success. For Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture collection, reads “hot” couture. Guests, including the actress Catherine Deneuve; Frédéric Mitterrand, the French Minister of Culture and Communication; the French designer, Jean Charles de Castelbajac; and the fashion photographer, Mario Testino, sweltered in sauna-like conditions, while the burlesque queen, Dita Von Teese, raised the temperature on his latest catwalk. Von Teese sashayed on as a vamp, in a Little Black Dress – one of the leitmotifs of this autumn/winter 2010/11 collection – and rapidly proceeded to shed it, along with her gloves, stripping down to a black, beaded corset, thong and suspenders.

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