While the great couturier Jean Paul Gaultier officially retired from the catwalks in January 2020, his maison continues to exercise, inviting other designers to reinterpret its codes. This season it is Olivier Rousteing (currently Balmain’s artistic director since 2011) to sew it. The result was just presented as part of the haute couture fashion week on 6 July 2022.
The Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture fashion show autumn-winter 2022-2023 by Olivier Rousteing
To imagine this haute couture collection fall winter 2022-2023 Jean Paul Gaultier by Olivier Rousteing, the latter was inspired by his memories of the enfant terrible of fashion, always in a striped shirt. Including her father with a bottle of Le Male perfume (shaped like a sailor’s torso) or even Madonna at amfAR in 1992 in a sheath dress with breasts proudly revealed by a series of braces.
The result is dresses inspired by a collection full of trompe-l’oeil tattoos inspired by the 1994 JPG one, then several passages full of know-how in corsetry, but also many tin details that are part of the Maison’s codes. Particularly moving are also the hints to the people who make these fabric dreams come true: thimbles at the ends of the fingers of the gloves, or even pincushion bracelets of exaggerated size, one that even becomes a sweetheart neckline.
A love letter in couture format from Olivier Rousteing to Jean Paul Gaultier
Also noteworthy is the passage of a marinière in modeled glass (other glass creations were made in this exhibition, all or almost all made by the head of the stained glass windows of Notre-Dame de Paris) on an aluminum skirt like a tin can, in order to reproduce the famous bottle of Le Male perfume by Jean Paul Gaultier. Something to leave everyone speechless.
Like a love letter in couture format to Jean Paul Gaultier, his workshops and his imagination, this collection by Olivier Rousteing also revealed its personality. And this is the whole point of a successful fashion collaboration. But also of a fulfilling relationship where no one forgets for the other. What a beautiful baby!
Front page photo credit: Olivier Rousteing’s Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture Fall-Winter 2022-2023 fashion show. © Instagram screenshots.
Source: Madmoizelle
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