Category: Art
This new exhibition at the Fashion Space Gallery will showcase exclusive imagery created by iconic designer Jean Paul Gaultier from the 1980s up until the present. The show will include the couturier’s unique designs for invitations to haute couture and prêt-à-porter, as well as his iconic advertising campaigns and reflects on how the designer has shaped his image and translated his visionary catwalk collections into iconic invitations and advertising campaigns. The image above was part of an ad campaign for the Tribute to Frida Kahlo collection, Women's prêt-à-porter spring/summer 1998; with art direction by Jean Paul Gaultier and illustration by Fred Langlais. It is a satellite show of the Barbican Art Gallery’s new exhibition, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, which I saw in Montreal a couple of years ago (you can read my review here).
Ad campaign for the fin de siècle collection, Women’s prêt-à-porter spring /summer 1995; art direction and photography: Jean Paul Gaultier
Ad campaign for the Elegance Contest and Casanova at the Gym collections, Women’s and Men’s prêt-à-porter spring/summer 1992; art direction and photography: Jean Paul Gaultier
The exhibition is curated by Alison Moloney of the London College of Fashion. Before joining LCF Alison worked as the Fashion and Textiles Advisor for the British Council’s Architecture, Design and Fashion department. In this role she curated Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion, which toured to South Asia; Alchemy: Contemporary Jewellery from Britain which toured to the Gulf; commissioned Dressing the Screen, a fashion film exhibition, for China UK Now and developed the International Fashion Showcase with the British Fashion Council.
Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm, Saturday: 10am-4pm, Sunday & Public Holidays: Closed. Admission: Free