Often introduced as French fashion’s ‘enfant terrible’, Jean Paul Gaultier radically refreshed, re-energized and re-imagined the possibilities of high fashion from the 1980s onwards, blurring boundaries between masculine and feminine, high and low culture and celebrating models of all ages and ethnicities – even drawing icons such as Madonna and Björk onto his runway.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Jean Paul Gaultier, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss to Gigi and Bella Hadid. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Jean Paul Gaultier, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss to Gigi and Bella Hadid. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
Extent: 632 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 1300
Publication date: 2025-10-30
Size: 27.7 x 19.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500025765
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 1300
Publication date: 2025-10-30
Size: 27.7 x 19.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500025765
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About the Author
Laird Borrelli-Persson is Vogue.com's Archive Editor. She is the author of many titles, including Fashion Illustration Now, Fashion Drawings by Fashion Designers, Bags: A Lexicon of Style, which she co-authored with Valerie Steele, and Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking, published by Thames & Hudson.