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Jean Paul Gaultier
Paris, 1976
Structure in places most tailoring goes soft. Decades on, it still holds that shape.
Jean Paul Gaultier never went to fashion school. He sent his drawings to Pierre Cardin, was hired at eighteen, and showed his own first collection in Paris in 1976.
Street and couture meet in the same garment: the sailor stripe, corsetry worn on the outside, printed stretch mesh cut close to the body, as in the Maille line. In Autumn/Winter 2003 he went to the airfield, with strap systems, harness closures and the parachute worn as a coat.
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