The Provocateur: subsequent 35 cheeky many years from the business, existence is nevertheless a cabaret for couturier Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier is not loco about job retrospectives. “I think they may be like a funeral sometimes,” winces the genuine bad boy of fashion, who turns sixty subsequent year. We are sitting near to the phase of Gaultier’s Rue Saint-Martin headquarters, especially where his punk-themed Spring 2011 couture assortment has just been unveiled. types strutted along the runway in his sailor-striped organza and leather-based ribbons bombers to some voice-over of Catherine Deneuve describing every one exquisite outfit, instead of music. practically everyone—including boy bride Andrej Pejic—was coiffed in some riff on the mohawk, and Gaultier himself arrived bounding out to think about his bow in a really spiked wig.