Shirt

Jean Paul Gaultier

ca. 1996 · leather, metal · Costume Institute

A sailor's middy is now a torn piece of leather. Gaultier uses the ripping less as process the way Kawakubo does and more as narrative. He turns the crisp sailor of the heroic H.M.S. Pinafore into the louch Cocteau sailor, somewhere between a leather bar and On the Town.

Artist

Jean Paul Gaultier

Date

ca. 1996

Medium

leather, metal

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Richard Martin, 1996