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French fashion giant Jean Paul Gaultier goes fur-free

Animal rights groups hailed on Monday Jean Paul Gaultier's announcement that he is joining the growing ranks of fashion designers to ban fur from their collections. The enfant terrible of French couture announced the decision in a television interview on Saturday, describing the methods used to kill the animals as "absolutely deplorable". "Fur...

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Fashion's bad boy Gaultier showcases life and work in 'freak' revue

"I was weaned on musicals ... totally transfixed by the plumes and the paste jewels. I told myself that one day I would stage a revue," Jean Paul Gaultier said of a childhood dream that has now taken shape at the Folies Bergeres, a landmark Parisian theatre. "The Fashion Freak Show", which opens to the public next week, traces the journey of the...

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Jean Paul Gaultier designs T-shirt for Paris Gay Games

The iconic fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier has created a T-shirt to celebrate the Gay Games, which are set to be held in Paris this year. Available in both men and women styles, the T-shirt will be sold exclusively at BHV Marais, the famous department store facing Hôtel de Ville, between July 27 and August 4. In addition to Jean Paul...

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Video: Jean Paul Gaultier FW 2018/2019 Haute Couture

Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018/2019 by Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture . Source: FF Channel, YouTube.

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Gaultier joins bra wars with 'Free the nipple' fashion slogan

French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier opened up a new front in the battle over bras Wednesday with "Free the nipple" slogans in his Paris haute couture show. The flamboyant designer showed his support for a Florida teenager who was made to cover her nipples in bandages at her high school for not wearing a bra under her sweatshirt. Lizzy...

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Arab Fashion Week eschews the abaya with resort-couture

As the abaya witnesses a global resurgence, the sixth edition of Arab Fashion Week opened Wednesday with fallen angels, Rococo corsets, cupcake headbands and nary a kaftan in sight. Billed as an official fashion week alongside the famed Paris, Milan and London shows, the Arab edition of fashion week is the sole event dedicated entirely to...

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Freak out: Telling a fashion life, Gaultier taps Nile Rodgers

Deciding how to tell his story as one of fashion's edgiest designers, Jean Paul Gaultier knew there had to be music. And he knew it had to come from Nile Rodgers. The designer who has brought playful and provocative clothes to the world's runways for four decades is turning the focus to himself with an autobiographical show to open on October 2...

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Saudi Arabia hosts its first Arab Fashion Week

Jean Paul Gaultier and Roberto Cavalli are in Saudi Arabia -- headlining the kingdom's first ever Arab Fashion Week, an event that opened Tuesday to equal parts excitement and controversy. Two weeks later than initially planned, the Saudi Arabian edition of Arab Fashion Week joins designers from Europe and the Arab world over the course of four...

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Video: Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture SS18

Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2018 collection, January 2018, Paris Haute Couture. Source: FF Channel, YouTube

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Jean-Paul Gaultier announces ‘Fashion Freak Show’

Flamboyant French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is to celebrate 50 years of pop culture seen through his eyes with a new stage musical, Fashion Freak Show that will premiere in Paris next October, before going on an international tour. Gaultier renowned for his theatrical catwalk shows, will be incorporating his “eccentric, scandalous, and...

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Jean Paul Gaultier participating in Toronto Fashion Week

Toronto Fashion Week is attempting to increase its notoriety. This year internationally renowned fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier will be leading an "In Conversation" panel discussion with special guest host, Derek Blasberg, deputy editor of Vanity Fair and host of CNN Style on CNN International. Toronto Fashion Week will be taking place on...

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Custom-made clothes for all within reach says top designer

Japanese designer Yuima Nakazato claimed Wednesday that he has cracked a digital technique which could revolutionise fashion with mass made-to-measure clothes. "We can design every type and shape of garment to be a precise fit to the wearer's figure," he told AFP after showing his digitally created haute couture collection in Paris. The...