A runway look from Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring/Summer 2016 collection. Photo: Getty Images
When Jean Paul Gaultier learned of the death of his first muse, Edwige Belmore, back in September during preparations for his Spring/Summer Couture 2016 collection, he immediately changed course setting out to pay ode to the iconic “Queen of Paris Punk” and Le Palace (the Paris version of Studio 54) their stomping ground in the late Seventies. Belmore, whose signature look was a shaved head, leather jacket and riding pants, even worked as the club’s physiognomist. “I was 20 years old, in my little tuxedo, bleach blond crew cut, big red lips, six body guards, and I was the person who decides who comes in and who doesn’t.”
Gaultier onstage with his models. Photo: Getty Images
Debonair silk pajamas was a key look, for the kind of woman who likes to roll out of her lover’s bed into the club, with one killer outing - black fishnets and a white marabou-feather tuxedo jacket striped with black crystals - evoking the look Belmore wore the first time she walked in one of Gaultier’s shows. The couturier has always been about elevating street codes, also sending out crystal-embroidered satin bombers and silk jacquard pants masquerading as bleached denim. While Gaultier recently wound down his ready-to-wear business to focus on couture, the wearability factor of his creations lives on
When Jean Paul Gaultier learned of the death of his first muse, Edwige Belmore, back in September during preparations for his Spring/Summer Couture 2016 collection, he immediately changed course setting out to pay ode to the iconic “Queen of Paris Punk” and Le Palace (the Paris version of Studio 54) their stomping ground in the late Seventies. Belmore, whose signature look was a shaved head, leather jacket and riding pants, even worked as the club’s physiognomist. “I was 20 years old, in my little tuxedo, bleach blond crew cut, big red lips, six body guards, and I was the person who decides who comes in and who doesn’t.”
Gaultier onstage with his models. Photo: Getty Images
Debonair silk pajamas was a key look, for the kind of woman who likes to roll out of her lover’s bed into the club, with one killer outing - black fishnets and a white marabou-feather tuxedo jacket striped with black crystals - evoking the look Belmore wore the first time she walked in one of Gaultier’s shows. The couturier has always been about elevating street codes, also sending out crystal-embroidered satin bombers and silk jacquard pants masquerading as bleached denim. While Gaultier recently wound down his ready-to-wear business to focus on couture, the wearability factor of his creations lives on
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