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5 May

Kylie Jenner Fronts Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Campaign

Kylie Jenner Fronts Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Campaign
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS: Kylie Jenner describes herself as a “JPG girl” lately. After donning a fiery red gown by Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring guest couturier Haider Ackermann for the recent Met Gala, and a black-and-white one for the after parties, the TV personality and wonder entrepreneur is back fronting a campaign for the style house’s latest ready-to-wear drop. Although the gathering is dubbed “Flowers,” Jenner donned a blush-colored, lingerie-style slip with pointy cups and posed for photographer Elizaveta Podorina. In accordance with Florence Tétier, creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier fashion, Jenner matched “the representation of a contemporary mermaid that I used to be searching for” and her idea for the gathering of “augmented nature with the floral references taken from the...
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27 Apr

Jean Amic, a Former CEO of Givaudan, Dies at

Jean Amic, a Former CEO of Givaudan, Dies at
PARIS — Jean Amic, a former chief executive officer of Givaudan, who was amongst probably the most dynamic, charismatic figures to occupy the worldwide perfumery stage in the course of the second half of the twentieth century, died Wednesday at age 87. “This can be a profound lack of an exceptional person,” said Gilles Andrier, CEO of the Swiss fragrance and flavors supplier, in a press release. “Jean and I even have collaborated for a few years. He guided me and initiated me in the basics of this magic industry. I had kept a really close relationship with him until today, and he continued to encourage me, at all times more interested at taking a look at the long run than...
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8 Apr

Alexis Stone Turned Into Jean Paul Gaultier for Campaign

Alexis Stone Turned Into Jean Paul Gaultier for Campaign
DOUBLE TAKE: If you happen to think Jean Paul Gaultier is springing across a Parisian street holding a baguette aloft in his brand’s latest ready-to-wear campaign, look again. It’s actually British drag performer and makeup artist Alexis Stone who donned looks out of the “Dress Like Jean Paul” spring collection, inspired by the French designer’s Breton top, also generally known as a marinière, and kilt. Revealed on Wednesday on Instagram, the photographs were shot by London-based photographer Grant-James Thomas in Paris’ Les Halles neighborhood. In a single image, Stone-as-Gaultier wore a kilt-and-mariniere ensemble that nods to one among the best-known portraits of the French couturier, a 1994 image shot by photographer Jean-Marie Périer for the French edition of Elle that saw him don...
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27 Mar

EXCLUSIVE: Julien Dossena Is Embracing ‘Freedom’ at Jean Paul Gaultier

EXCLUSIVE: Julien Dossena Is Embracing ‘Freedom’ at Jean Paul Gaultier
“A succession of wows, constant astonishment” is how Julien Dossena described the hours spent trawling through the Jean Paul Gaultier archive in preparation for his role as guest couturier at the home next July. “It brought back memories, it brought back sensations,” said the designer, who first learned in regards to the “enfant terrible” of Paris fashion as a toddler growing up in Brittany, having stumbled across a television program about Gauliter. “When you're touching all those pieces, you'll be able to try to grasp the considering that allowed him to reach at that exact reference, mixed with one other reference that makes it unique and at the identical time super French, mixed with that cool, Nineteen Nineties grunge feeling — yet...
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