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The Cite de l´Architectura et du Patrimonine exhibits the decorative facility Suite Elle Decoración created by the prominent fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier in the old department of Jaques Carlu, architect of the Palais de Chaillor. This installation organized by Elle Magazine and the Cité de l’Architectura et du Patrimonine will be opened until October and can visited Saturdays and Sundays.
This Gaultier installation corresponds to the third version of the Suite Elle Décoration that Elle y Cité de l’Architectura et du Patrimonine, organize to enhance the importance that design has in decoration and to situate it at the same level of the rest of other artistic creations. The last two versions were created by Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela.
Gaultier, as usual is provocative and breaks with all the habitual Paris schemes, He builds his creation using the classic blue and white nautical stripes even if the apartment is situated in front of the magnificent Eiffel Tower. The Designer, who´s main priority is to dress up bodies, focused on the project as if the walls and floors of the apartment was a motionless body and dresses them up, including the furniture, something that creates and interesting effect of forms, perspectives and light movements with anthropomorphic textures.
His reputation as enfant terrible has taken his style to the highest fashion and design levels. Even if he doesn´t have a designer academic formation, Gaultier is one of the few fashion designers that has revolutionized the classic sexist aesthetic appearance in fashion, promoting the use of Kilts or masculine skirts in his collection “Hombre Objeto”(Man Object)
Gaultier´s disrespect towards traditional fashion standards marks a before and after in the runaways by including street signs in his designs, adding piercings and tattoos to the expensive clothings and including models of all ages and sizes in his fashion shows
His initiation in fashion took place in the traditional Pierre Cardin workshop who was impressed with his talent and creativity and which has taken him to be in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art with Brave Hearts and Men with skirts
Gaultier was chosen to select and create the wardrobe for the movies The fifth Element of Luc Besson, Kika of Pedro Almodovar, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover by Peter Greenaway and The city of Lost Children of Jean Pierre Jeunet
The eclecticism that his known for has taken him to participate as the host of the famous Enlgish series Eurotrash for a period 6 weeks and launch song called “how to do dat”
One of his main revolutionary ideas was rescuing from the wardrobe the corset and use it to dress one of the main symbols of sensuality of the 90, Madonna. This garment, once a representation of female sexual repression, was transformed in the hands of Gaultier who added certain punk elements and surprised lingerie designers who restored the undergarment as an essential part of the female dressing stlye
More Info: http://www.citechaillot.fr/exposition/suite_elle_decoration.php
Nancy Guzman
Everything that Gaultier designs is art and that´s why this decorative intervention results in something you can´t miss when you´re spending some marvellous spring days in apartments in Paris
Translated by: Marc
