Acareer-spanninginventoryoftheiconoclasticdesigner’savant-gardecreationsCoveringmorethanfivedecades,thispublicationgivesadazzlingreviewofthegreatenfantterribleofFrenchfashion,JeanPaulGaultier(born1952).DisplayingGaultier’soeuvrealphabetically--includingiconicpiecessuchasMadonna’scorsetsandKylieMinogue’sstagecostumes--JeanPaulGaultier:FromAtoZexaminesthedesigner’ssingularaestheticfromallangleswhileexploringhisdifferentinfluences:fromcinematodance,fromFridaKahlotosailors.Presentingavant-gardefashionimbuedwithhumanism,Gaultierchallenged,reinterpretedandtransgressednotonlythecodesofhautecoutureandready-to-wearbutalsothoseofoursociety,creatinganinclusivefashioninformedbyhisbeliefthatbeautyassumesmultitudinousforms.Thestreet,oneofthemaininspirationsforhispropheticvisionofasocietythatcelebratesdiversity,isforhimarealmwhereintegrationandmulticulturalism,androgynyandmetamorphoses,womenofpowerandmen-as-objectscross,inspiringtheuniquecreationsthroughtheexceptionalknow-howofthehautecoutureworkshopsofhisMaisondecouture.Whetheritiscinemaormenwearingskirts,punksorParisiennes,animalsornature,Gaultier’ssourcesofinspirationareendlessandinexhaustible.JeanPaulGaultier:FromAtoZisatimelytributeto--aswellasanessentialreviewof--oneoffashion’struegreats.
