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Beloved French designer Jean Paul Gaultier who is known to push the fashion envelope when it comes to his avant-garde designs is a trendsetter and icon (hence Madonna’s cone bra throwback), and his works are to be celebrated at the Brooklyn Museum! From October 15, 2013 to February 23, 2013, this event will be the first international exhibition showcasing the couturier’s work. Over 130 haute couture pieces, audiovisual materials, sketches, early designs, and photographs are to be present for viewing. An appropriate subtitle dubbed From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk embodies the designer’s inspiration in the everyday and unexpected. Seven themes will organize the house of Gaultier for the event: the odyssey, the boudoir, muses, punk cancan, skin deep-clothing, metropolis, and urban jungle.
The Brooklyn Museum is the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking French couturier. Playful, poetic, and transformative, Gaultier’s superbly crafted and detailed garments are inspired by the beauty and diversity of global cultures.
This multimedia exhibition is organized around seven themes tracing the influences on Gaultier’s development—from the streets of Paris to the cinema—since he emerged as a designer in the 1970s. It features approximately 140 haute couture and prêt-à-porter ensembles, from the designer’s earliest to his most recent collections, many of which are displayed on custom mannequins with interactive faces created by high-definition audiovisual projections. Accessories, sketches, stage costumes, excerpts from films, and documentation of runway shows, concerts, and dance performances, as well as photographs by fashion photographers and contemporary artists who stepped into Gaultier’s world, explore how his avant-garde designs challenge societal, gender, and aesthetic codes in unexpected ways.
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk is organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris. The exhibition is curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot of the MMFA. The Brooklyn presentation is coordinated by Lisa Small, Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum.
Stay tuned, and keep your fashion eyes peeled for the dates!
- via trendland.com