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Jean-Paul Gaultier

Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24, 1952, in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne) works like French fashion designer and also television presenter.

Gaultier has never graduated some formal training as a designer. Rather he started to send some sketching to known couture stylists at an early age. His great talent enraptured Pierre Cardin. His career in fashion began on his 18th birthday, which was the day he became Pierre Cardin's assistant. He realized the first one individual collection in 1976 and characteristic irreverent style of him is dating from 1981. Jean-Paul Gaultier has long been known as the enfant terrible (bad boy) in French fashion. Many of his next collections have been based on street wearing, centering on popular culture, whereas others, especially his Haute Couture collections, are more formal yet at the same time unique and playful. Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes for Madonna's Blond Ambition tour during the nineties, and later worked on her Drowned World tour and has also worked in close collaboration with Wolford Hosiery. He made the use of skirts popular, especially kilts on men's wardrobe, and the release of designer collections. Jean Paul Gaultier found his own way to comment on the 'size zero' debate - by putting a larger model down the catwalk to show off his clothes. His models are also pierced and heavily tattooed. He did play with traditional gender roles in the shows. This granted him both criticism and colossal popularity.

Gaultier's profile has been raised by his work as a costume designer for films such as Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), Pedro Almodovar's Kika (1993), Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's La Cite des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children). This time he is designer of three collections: the first one is his own couture and ready-to-wear lines, as well as the newly relaunched clothing line for Hermes, a French leather goods company well-known just for their equestrian background, scarves, and expensive and difficult to obtain handbags. Most recently, Jean-Paul Gaultier designed Madonna's wardrobe for her 2006 Confessions Tour, continuing their long-standing relationship.

Gaultier has also designed a number of the costumes and outfits worn by rocker Marilyn Manson, including the outfits for Manson's Golden Age of Grotesque album. He's also well-known for his exhibit in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art known as Bravehearts - Men in Skirts.

Jean-Paul Gaultier is also known because of a popular line of perfumes. In 1993 he introduced his first fragrance called Classique. It was women's floral-oriental, come after by Le Male for men two years later. Both of them had a high success, and Le Male has become the number-one of men fragrance in all European Union based on sales. It took a vehement market position in Australia and the United States. In 2000 Gaultier put on the market the third fragrance, Fragile, dedicated to women; nevertheless, it is now in limited distribution due to poor sales. In 2005, the unisex "fragrance for humanity" Gaultier? (pronounced Gaultier to the power of two) was launched (except in Canada, where it was launched in January 2006, and the United States, where it was launched in August 2006)., Fleur du Male, a new fragrance of men, will be established worldwide in April 2007. All Jean-Paul Gaultier perfumes are produced under a long-term license by Paris-based Beaute Prestige International, a division of the Japanese company Shiseido that also produces fragrances for Narciso Rodriguez and Issey Miyake.

Jean-Paul Gaultier