Jean Paul Gaultier designs for the strong and free woman


the french designer Jean Paul Gaultierwho participated electronically this Thursday in the presentation in Seville of the exposition “Cinema and fashion. By Jean Paul Gaultier“, he explained that his creations for actresses reflect a woman” strong and free woman; They show the evolution of the woman subjected to the woman she chooses.”

“Women are getting stronger and that is reflected in my dresses; fashion, as the cinema also does, reflects the evolution of society,” said the designer when presenting the exposition which can be seen in this city in southern Spain until March 19.

Gaultier, creative director of the show that includes sixty fashion creations that have been iconic in the world of cinema, many of them designed by himself, assured that this exposition focuses precisely “on the similarity between fashion and cinema, and on the evolution followed by men, who are increasingly feminine, and women, who are increasingly stronger”.

The designer stated that he is interested in “self-confident” people, that he always avoids “the romantic side” in his creations and that when he meets a model who walks like a model, he asks her to walk like her to put on her dresses herself, with her own personality.

He also said that he would never work on a film either as an actor or as a director, because it is an extremely difficult job that requires demanding psychological conditions.

Among the film directors who have influenced him the most, he pointed out the Italian Federico Fellini and among the fashion designers the Spanish Paco Rabanne, whom he described as a revolutionary, also for using metals in his dresses.

iconic dresses

“Without the ‘Falbalás’ parade, I would never have become a designer,” Gaultier commented several times about that French film shot at the end of the Second World War, which shows the world of haute couture and serves to open a exposition which also brings together models by Coco Chanel, Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Courrèges and Sybilla, as well as creations by Gaultier himself.

The exhibition, with around twenty video screens offering images of the films in which these designs were used along with mannequins wearing the original creations, also includes dresses that have become icons by actresses such as Sharon Stone, Grace Jones, Catherine Deneuve and Madonna.

Organized together with the Cinématheque Française, the expositionFrom Gaultier’s personal point of view, as a film buff and as a costume designer, he participates in both mythomania and sociology, since he has an impact on female empowerment and its reflection in fashion and cinema in recent decades.

In addition to the sixty models, some of which are arranged in double height and each one with a particular lighting setting, the exposition brings together a hundred pieces of clothing, fragments of ninety films and 125 graphic works including posters, photographs, sketches and stills, some of them by unknown authors and who are already part of the history of cinema.

Among this clothing are “Superman” costumes worn by Christopher Reeve, the fox mask worn by Antonio Banderas, the “shorts” worn by Sylverter Stallone in “Rocky”, chaps by John Wayne or Victoria Abril’s wardrobe in “Kika”. “.

Gaultier referred to the filming of that Spanish film on several occasions to recall anecdotes, such as the fact that Pedro Almodóvar -with whom he worked on three films- liked that “Kika” dress so much that, in the actress’s first fitting and without her being finished, the director began to shoot, while the pins were coming off.

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