From June 17 to October 2, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will present The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first exhibition devoted to the celebrated French couturier who launched his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1976 and founded his own couture house in 1997.
Jean Paul Gaultier is indisputably one of the most important fashion designers of recent decades. Initiated, developed, produced and circulated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of the designer’s own label, this exploration of Jean Paul Gaultier’s creative world has been organized in collaboration with the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier. Following its presentation in Montreal, the exhibition will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art (November 9, 2011–February 12, 2012) and then to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young (March 24–August 19, 2012).
As a reminder, Gaultier has worked with Pedro Almodóvar, Angelin Preljocaj, not to mention the world of popular music, Madonna – who has graciously lent two corsets from her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour but also Beth Ditto, featured on this blog before etc.
I am a huge fan and I hope I will meet him one day!
