MUSEUMS Fashion Show KATHLEEN WHYMAN • MANAGING EDITOR • ATTRACTIONS MANAGEMENT


Whether it’s an antidote to the economic climate or the opportunity to indulge our love of popular culture, exhibitions profiling fashion designers are in vogue


The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk de Young Museum Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA


Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, currently on display at the de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco (FAMSF), USA. The exhibition features 140 ensembles spanning 35 years from the French designer’s couture and ready-to-wear collections. A complementary multimedia installation is bro- ken down into six thematic sections tracing Gaultier’s infl uences, from Paris to the world of science fi ction. These include: The Odys- sey of Jean Paul Gaultier, which welcomes the visitor with singing mannequins and a special cameo by the designer; The Boudoir showcases Gaultier’s collaboration with Ma- donna and includes two iconic corsets from the singer’s 1990 World Tour that launched the cone bra into fashion iconography; and Metropolis, a presentation of his work for fi lm,


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nimated mannequins and a moving catwalk are bringing couture to life at The Fashion World of Jean Paul


performance pieces and his relationships with pop icons like Kylie Minogue. FAMSF curator of costume and textile arts Jill D’Alessandro says: “We’ve tried to capture the playfulness, the whimsy, the humour and the raw energy of Gaultier’s world.” However, there’s also a serious message behind the ex- hibition. Clothing, or fashion, has historically been used for social and political means,” D’Alessandro explains. “As Gaultier says, his ‘main infl uence is what’s happening today. Fashion must correspond to the aspirations of the moment and refl ect current events. Designers are the catalyst of their time; their role is to translate the change, the mutations, the evolution of society.’ This is why Jean Paul Gaultier is one of the most infl uential designers of the past few decades and why he warrants an exhibition.”


Gaultier’s childhood teddy featuring the cone bra


Organised by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, in collaboration with the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, the Fashion World exhibition will move to Fundación Mapfre – Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, Spain, in August, and then on to Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2013.


The show will move to Madrid and Rotterdam


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