10 Iconic Jean Paul Gaultier Moments We’ll Never Forget
From a nipple-freeing Madonna to a heavily pregnant Jourdan Dunn, there’s a reason why JPG is known as L’Enfant Terrible…
By Portis Wasp
It’s no surprise after announcing earlier this year that he would be shutting down his ready-to-wear collection to focus on haute couture and his perfume business, Jean Paul Gaultier’s last ever prêt-à-porter show - which he staged at Le Grand Rex on Saturday - was the hottest ticket in town. But could anyone have expected Gaultier to create an extravagant Beauty Pageant (appropriately titled Élection de Miss Jean Paul Gaultier 2015), which saw the designer’s most famous work showcased to an audience of peers, including Rick Owens, Jeremy Scott, and Gareth Pugh? Of course! It’s Gaultier, bitches!
Supermodel Coco Rocha competed on the runway, with a painful-looking tumble not usurping her crowning, while a Gaultier paid homage to the fashion editors who have helped him along the way. There were models dressed as Grace Coddington, Emmanuelle Alt, Franca Sozzani and Carine Roitfeld, with Lindsey Wixson taking on a young Suzy Menkes, while an Anna Wintour parody was notably absent. Burn.
Over the years, Jean Paul Gaultier has become a master at creating iconic fashion moments that we’ll all still be talking about in decades to come. So, in celebration of his final hurrah on the ready-to-wear runway, here are our 10 favourite catwalk moments from Gaultier’s shows over the years!
10 Iconic Jean Paul Gaultier Moments We’ll Never Forget
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With an opportunity to upstage the conical bras from her Blonde Ambition tour, Madonna waited for the final moments of Gaultier’s 1992 show to whip off her jacket, and #FreeTheNipple! Always ahead of her time, that one. -
Whist we have a lot of time for a quiffed Coco Rocha playing Danny from ‘Grease’ in the designer’s SS14 show, we can’t think of a more iconic runway moment than Rocha doing an Irish jig down the runway, for Gaultier’s 2007 presentation. -
When a very preggers Jourdan Dunn walked in Gaultier’s SS10 show wearing a custom baby bump pad, we all had to take a pregnant pause to digest how ridiculously hot she looked! -
Gaultier took us back to the ’80s for his SS13 show, which saw models strutting down the catwalk dressed as icons David Bowie, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox and Madonna. Karlie Kloss dressed as Boy George though?! We can’t even… -
Not content to feature in just the one iconic moment in this list, Karlie Kloss learned how to Vogue for Gaultier’s SS14 Talent Contest show – and boy did she strike all those poses. -
It’s unlikely we’ll ever forget the image of Sophie Dahl wearing this corset dress in 2001, thanks to her heavenly curves inspiring the shape of Gaultier’s now-iconic perfume bottles! -
Nor will we forget Gaultier’s SS12 Couture show, which – although controversial – was meant as a fitting tribute to the iconic Amy Winehouse. Thank goodness JPG will still be creating couture moments like this! -
Headlines were made around the world when the model formerly known as Andrej walked in Gaultier’s Haute Couture Spring 2011 show dressed as a Bride. We’re sure we won’t have to wait long for Andreja Pejic to top this iconic moment. -
How would you celebrate your 30th anniversary in the fashion business? In 2006, Gaultier put on a magic show for the likes of Janet Jackson and Demi Moore, which saw him lock Grace Coddington in a cage and casually levitate a fashion editor on stage. -
In 2002, long before Lily McMenamy draped an arm over her bare chest during Marc Jacobs’ AW13 show, Naomi Campbell set the bar for topless strutting as she sashayed down the runway wearing a red beret, pencil skirt, and two perfectly placed hands.
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