Jean Paul Gaultier & Suzy Menkes SF 3/24
This seems like an event that should not be missed. Lecture coincides with the opening of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk March 24- August 19 at the De Young Museum In San Francisco.
A Conversation with Jean Paul Gaultier and Suzy Menkes, Fashion Editor, International Herald Tribune
SOLD OUT But you can still visit the show. The phone lines and the website was both out of commission this morning. SO who ever got tickets your some sort of genie.
Join Suzy Menkes, fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune, in an intimate on-stage discussion with Jean Paul Gaultier.
Tickets go on sale March 1, 8 a.m. PST. Purchase tickets online, by telephone, or in person at either the de Young or Legion or Honor museums.
Seating is limited; advance ticket purchase required. $25 for members and $35 for non-members.
This ticket does not include entrance into the special exhibition.
Member Call Center for Ticketing and Memberships – 800-777-9996
Non-member Call Center for Ticketing – 888-901-6645
Left: Paolo Roversi, Tanel Bedrossiantz, 1992. Barbès collection. Women’s prêt-à-porter fall/winter 1984–1985. Digital print © Paolo Roversi. Center: Jean Paul Gaultier. Fishnet tights, Parisiennes collection, haute couture fall/winter 2010-2011© Patrice Stable/Jean Paul Gaultier. Right: Photo by Jerry Pigeon (Studio JPG)
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
March 24, 2012 – August 19, 2012
Dubbed fashion’s enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier launched his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1976 and founded his own couture house in 1997. Emerging as a designer in the 1970s, he developed his own dress codes that reflected the changing world around him. The openly gay Gaultier uses his designs to tackle gender and transgender issues through androgynous, gender-bending styles, meanwhile delving even further into some of the darker areas of the sexual revolution. Always provocative, he addresses issues of multiculturalism by bringing ethnic diversity to the Paris runway. Despite the gritty and sometimes controversial context of his collections, the clothes remain beautiful, superbly crafted with the finest dressmaking and detailing skills.
This dynamic, multimedia exhibition will include 140 haute couture and prêt-à-porter designs created between the mid-1970s and 2010, along with numerous sketches, archival documents, fashion photographs, and video clips that spotlight Gaultier’s collaborations with filmmakers, choreographers, and musicians, most notably Madonna. For this presentation, Gaultier partnered with the Montreal-based theater company Ubu Compagnie de Création in the design of 30 animated mannequins who talk and sing in playful and poetic vignettes.
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