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Paris fashion week delivers sad world escapism it craves

As a study in disconnect, Paris's haute couture fashion week -- which came to a close on Thursday -- is hard to beat. The outside world might be suffering economic austerity, or the fear of Islamist attacks, or simply a winter to chill the bones. But inside the warm, gilded bubble offered to the jet set designer crowd, a springtime fantasy was...

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Jean Paul Gaultier for president

Jean Paul Gaultier has become president of the Jean Paul Gaultier Group of which he is the majority shareholder. This decision comes after the departure of Veronique Gautier, who has left the company after 18 months as president to pursue other projects. Jean Paul Gaultier is entrusting the operational running of the company to Ms Caroline Le...

Fashion

Jean Paul Gaultier in film

A Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show will make a cameo appearance in the next film by Cédric Klapsich, maker of "The Spanish Apartment" and its sequel, "The Russian Doll." Rather than seeing last season's fashions again, Gaultier restaged his sporty-themed spring-summer show in December exclusively for Klapsich's cameras - and with only waist-down...

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Gaultier on tour with Madonna

Jean Paul Gaultier will be on tour with Madonna. Not in the literal sense, rather she will be wearing his intricate and sexy designs on stage, just as she did sixteen years ago during the Blonde Ambition tour. Madonna's "Confessions" tour, which starts in America next week before heading to Europe, will see the queen of self transformation take...

Fashion

Gaultier cracks the whip at Hermes

Jean Paul Gaultier showed his most inspired interpretation of the spirit of the Hermes yet. The French luxury house began life as a saddler and is renowned for its leather goods and silk scarves - and now ready-to-wear - since Gaultier took on the job of Hermes's women's designer two years ago. Blacks, browns, mulberries and flashes of metallic...

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Gaultier's new BF

Jean Paul Gaultier has a new best friend. Her name is Kateryna Yushchnenko, wife of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. The pair first met in Kiev in May during the Eurovision song contest. "We hit it off," said Kateryna. "And when he said he would do a collection about Ukraine, I knew I had to be there." Kateryna made a point of attending...

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Gaultier launches unisex fragrance

Jean Paul Gaultier is launching his first unisex fragrance. The idea is to return to traditional perfumery where there were no women's and men's genres. Perfumes were made for the individual, a Gaultier spokeswoman says. The black-and-white advertising visuals by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, highlight a man and woman floating towards each other in...

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Gaultier boss resigns

Donald Potard, president of fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier, has resigned, causing tongues to wag about the state of the company. Potard was a childhood friend of Gaultier who was promoted to president of the company in 1990. His management skills were as unconventional as Gaultier's designer skills, which is what he attributed the success of...

Fashion

Gaultier eye-to-eye with De Rigo

French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier signed an agreement granting De Rigo, a leading eyewear company, a license to produce and distribute Jean Paul Gaultier optical frames and sunglasses starting with the 2006 collection. The new collection of sunglasses and eyewear will complete the range of Jean Paul Gaultier's lines of accessories, fully...

Fashion

Hunting Dress: The Epitome Of Style

Hunting may no longer be supported by parliament, but that doesn't mean it has gone out of fashion. The riding coat became the epitome of style across the world in the 19th century, and has since come back from season to season and never truly gone out of style. Hunting dress, tradition aside, is sexy. N such a highly competitive field as the...

Fashion

Fashion And Fantasy

The motto of haute couture has always been one of freedom, fantasy and beauty. A world where handmade dresses of fine silk are embellished with jewels, where an exquisite corsage will take hours to make, where exotic muses guide designers' hands. Haute couture is an area of fashion where designers - unfettered by practicality or price - find...

Fashion

Gaultier finally affordable

The concept of couturiers working with high street retailers is a successful one. This was demonstrated by the instant sell-out of Karl Lagerfeld's collection for H&M in Paris last Friday. Now the French mail order catalogue La Redoute has revealed its new spring/summer 2005 issue, which includes a 20-piece capsule collection by Jean Paul...