Jean Paul Gaultier Catwalk - The Complete Collections

The tenth volume in the bestselling Catwalk series offers the first ever comprehensive overview of Jean Paul Gaultier-s womenswear collections, from his debut in the late 1970s to his farewell show in 2020. Often introduced as French fashion-s -enfant terrible-, Jean Paul Gaultier radically refreshed, re-energized and re-imagined the possibilities of high fashion from the 1980s onwards, blurring boundaries between masculine and feminine, ethnicities, and -high- and 'low- culture - even drawing icons such as Madonna and Bj-rk onto his runway. This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Jean Paul Gaultier, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs - and,