Jean Paul Jean-Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and pret-a-porter fashion designer.
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22 Facts About Jean-Paul Gaultier
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Jean-Paul Gaultier is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinieres, and tin cans.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier founded his self-titled fashion label in 1982, and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier's mother was a clerk and his father an accountant.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier found himself on a "no leave" list and had to pretend to have a family emergency in order to leave.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier's garments were on sale at Bergdorf Goodman in New York as soon as 1984, and already lauded by Dawn Mello and Polly Allen Mellen.
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Besides his ready-to-wear collection, in 1988 Jean-Paul Gaultier expanded his brand to include the label Junior Jean-Paul Gaultier, a lower-priced line of products.
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The Junior Jean-Paul Gaultier outfit was selected by Jeff Banks as the Dress of the Year.
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Junior Jean-Paul Gaultier's name was reused in 2009 for the launching of the child's wear, to be completed with a Baby Line in 2011.
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In 2002, Jean-Paul Gaultier's label opened its first fully-fledged stand-alone store.
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In 2019, Jean-Paul Gaultier collaborated with the New York streetwear brand Supreme.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier announced on 17 January 2020 that his next Paris haute couture fashion show would be his last and that he was retiring from the runway.
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In 1988, Jean-Paul Gaultier released a dance single titled "How To Do That" on Fontana Records, from which came one of the first ever "single title" remix albums, Aow Tou Dou Zat, on Mercury Records.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier is known as Eurovision enthusiast, and since 1991, he's dressed several of France's entrants.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier commented the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with Julien Lepers on France Televisions.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the dress that Anggun wore as she represented France during the grand-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Jean Paul Jean-Paul Gaultier says he is inspired by the baby boomers' TV culture, and the street culture where audacity sometimes triggers new trends.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier caused shock by using unconventional models for his exhibitions, like older men and full-figured women, pierced and heavily tattooed models, and by playing with traditional gender roles in the shows.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier's notoriety increased in the 1980s with several cone-breasted designs, similar to one worn on tour by Madonna.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier met his partner Francis Menuge, who helped him to get established and start running shows.
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In recent years, Jean-Paul Gaultier has focused less on fashion to wear, and more on haute couture and putting on shows.
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