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It will run from Stride 24 to Aug. 19, and will be a retrospective of the designer's amazing -- and totally unique -- career, which started with ready to wear in 1976 then with Gaultier Couture launching in 1997.
JPG, as this "enfant miserable" is often known, is famed for tackling issues of gender and androgyny, putting women in firmly cut men's pin stripe suits (i.e. Madonna ) and men in skirts.
His women's and men's perfumes are in bottles that look like naked bodies. He has also always employed multiculturalism as a theme, basing various collections on rabbis, African tribes, and the like. His fresh couture show in January was built around the iconization of Amy Winehouse . He follows his fancy wherever it takes him, and it's always somewhere interesting. JPG always goes his own way.
The exhibit will show 140 haute couture and in position to wear designs from the 70's to 2010, along with numerous sketches, archival documents, look photographs, and video clips that spotlight Gaultier’s collaborations with filmmakers, choreographers, and musicians, most unusually Madonna.
Source: Hollywood Reporter