PARIS: The brief couture season moved from showmen to poets on Wednesday. And nowhere was this change of bleeding red heart more evident than at Jean Paul Gaultier.
The self-styled bad-boy designer moved from dressing Madonna to dresses inspired by the Madonna, including one with blood-red chiffon trickling over a black dress.
"Celestial and a certain serenity," Gaultier said backstage, explaining how, after the ready-to-wear razzmatazz celebrating his 30th anniversary, he wanted to find peace.
Until that 1980s Madonna classic "Like a Virgin" came up on the finale soundtrack, the show was not even a pastiche of the maidenly sweetness it presented. Instead the models came out in softly draped dresses, radiating calm - not least from the halos that framed their faces and were miracles of invention: translucent circles, gilded spikes, red roses and votive pictures.
Gaultier may have tapped the burlesque performer Dita Von Teese to inject her Gothic glamour, but for a designer who once traded in sex, androgyny and provocation, this show was womanly grace incarnate....Source: International Herald Tribune
The self-styled bad-boy designer moved from dressing Madonna to dresses inspired by the Madonna, including one with blood-red chiffon trickling over a black dress.
"Celestial and a certain serenity," Gaultier said backstage, explaining how, after the ready-to-wear razzmatazz celebrating his 30th anniversary, he wanted to find peace.
Until that 1980s Madonna classic "Like a Virgin" came up on the finale soundtrack, the show was not even a pastiche of the maidenly sweetness it presented. Instead the models came out in softly draped dresses, radiating calm - not least from the halos that framed their faces and were miracles of invention: translucent circles, gilded spikes, red roses and votive pictures.
Gaultier may have tapped the burlesque performer Dita Von Teese to inject her Gothic glamour, but for a designer who once traded in sex, androgyny and provocation, this show was womanly grace incarnate....Source: International Herald Tribune
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