Jean-Paul Gaultier was born on pril 24, 1952, in Arcueil. He is a French fashion designer and past television presenter. He has never received any training related to the fashion indusry. He was born talented.
Gaultier never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970.
Though technically brilliant, Gaultier has always taken great delight in parodying the fashion establishment. In fact, he is credited with redefining many fashion conventions. In the Eighties, he recreated underwear as outerwear, with a series of designs which culminated in thecorset dress and black studded bra made famous by Madonna in her Blonde Ambition tour of 1990.
His first individual collection was released in 1976 and his characteristic irreverent style dates from 1981, and he has long been known as the enfant terrible (bad boy) of French fashion.
Gaultier has designed a number of the costumes and outfits worn by rocker Marilyn Manson,[2] including the outfits for Manson's Golden Age of Grotesque album.[3] In France the costumes he designed for singer Mylène Farmer gained much attention. In spring 2008 he signed a contract to be again the fashion designer for her tour in 2009.
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