The tenth volume in the bestselling Catwalk series offers the first ever comprehensive overview
of Jean Paul Gaultier's womenswear collections from his debut in the late 1970s to his
farewell show in 2020. With 2.5 million copies in print each high-end cloth-bound volume
in the bestselling Catwalk series features over 1 300 looks as they originally appeared on the
catwalk styled as the designer intended and sported by the world's top models. These ten
treasure troves of inspiration are must-have references for all fashion fans and professionals.
Often introduced as French fashion's 'enfant terrible' Jean Paul Gaultier radically refreshed
re-energized and re-imagined the possibilities of high fashion from the 1980s onwards blurring
boundaries between masculine and feminine high and low culture and celebrating models of all
ages and ethnicities - even drawing icons such as Madonna and Björk onto his runway. This
definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house followed by a brief
biographical profile of Jean Paul Gaultier before exploring the collections themselves
organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its
influences and highlights and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase
hundreds of spectacular clothes details accessories beauty looks and set designs - and of
course the top fashion models who wore them on the runway from Linda Evangelista and Kate
Moss to Gigi and Bella Hadid. A rich reference section including an extensive index concludes
the book. After Chanel Dior Louis Vuitton Yves Saint Laurent Prada Vivienne
Westwood Versace Chloé and Givenchy Jean Paul Gaultier is the tenth volume in a series of
high-end cloth-bound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world's
top fashion houses through original catwalk photography.
