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Gaultier Paris|Jean Paul Gaultier
fall/winter 2008–9 · nylon, rayon, silk, leather, metal · Costume Institute
The hidden supportive understructures of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century womenswear inform the work of contemporary designers, who have translated inner layers of shaping into outer ornament. Here, Jean Paul Gaultier’s lace wedding dress is accompanied by a cage crinoline of mid-nineteenth-century proportions that has been reconceived as an extravagant veil.
- Artist
- Gaultier Paris|Jean Paul Gaultier
- Date
- fall/winter 2008–9
- Medium
- nylon, rayon, silk, leather, metal
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of Jean Paul Gaultier, in honor of Harold Koda, 2016
