Jean-Paul Gaultier

JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER. French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs. He founded his eponymous fashion label in 1982 and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993. He was the creative director for French luxury house Hermès from 2003 to 2010 and retired following his 50th-anniversary haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week in January 2020. As a costume designer, he created Madonna's cone bra for the 1990 Blond Ambition World and the costumes for the movies The City of Lost Children (1995) / The Fifth Element (1997) / Bad Education (2004) and The Skin I Live In (2011). Between 1993-97, he co-hosted the Channel 4 programme Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes