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Corseted waistlines, asymmetric suits, lace trimmings, fur lined embroidered denim and parakeet boleros, the collection itself was an extension of his pret line. One saw his obvious admiration for Yves Saint Laurent's elegant chic in his version of the smoking jacket and carried on in the footsteps of Alexander McQeen at Givenchy by giving denim the couture edge.

The grand

JEAN PAUL GAULIER

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The event all Paris was waiting for finally happened. The genial Jean Paul Gaultier after years of producing some fantastic signature pret collections eventually set foot into that charmed circle of designers at the

Maison de la Couture.
The enfant terrible's transition from the pret to the world of Haute Couture was necessarily grounded in his year of assistantship at such pioneering houses of fashion such as Cardin and Jean Patou.

The trade mark Gaultier tatoo prints came in a sequinned version along with the use of Chinese motifs in the form of body art and make-up.
Gaultier's entry into the syndicate do la couture comes as a shot in the arm for an industry most people think is waning.