from The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier:
“An innovative exhibition design by the Paris-based architectural and stage design company Projectiles, showcases the couturier’s designs, as well as prints and video clips, illustrating many of Gaultier’s artistic collaborations. Throughout the galleries, thirty unique mannequins wearing remarkable wigs and headdresses by Odile Gilbert, founder of the Atelier 68 in Paris, come ‘alive’ with interactive faces created by technologically ingenious audiovisual projections, surprising visitors with their lifelike presence. Poetic and playful, the production, design and staging of this dynamic audiovisual element has been produced by Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin of UBU/Compagnie de création. A dozen celebrities, including Gaultier himself, have lent their faces—projected on to the mannequins—and often their voices to this project.”
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
Très Cool, your writing, and your pics!!
Oops…forgot quotation marks…
Pics are mine but writing comes from the de Young link above…
Good catch.
awesome shots but kind of creeps me out, is that the affect it’s supposed to have, because it definitely made me feel!
I think they intend it to make you feel otherworldly…
that’s the perfect word for it!
Those are very gothic looking. I can see how some talented soul could write a story just based on these photos.
Yes, It was well done…I found it inspiring…
Eerily fascinating…I’d love to view that in person. The stark chiaroscuro of your shots does so much to enhance these mannequins…great, great work, barbara!
You would like this exhibit. Maybe it will come to Chicago?
I’ll watch for it…thanks!
Jean Paul Gaultier has an imagination that goes beyond fashion…
you captured it well…
bravo~
he is an artist…fashion is his canvass
WOW!
It was a good place to be
cool!
All was so well done in this exhibit.
I saw a Gaultier exhibit in NY last summer at the MOMO. It was clearly bondage inspired. I’m wondering if this is the same exhibit traveling, or if all of his fashion was way more bondage inspired than I ever realized…
I am not sure if this is the same exhibit. I think it was sort of a retrospective…a lot of great photography too.
you brought life to these figures Barbara… and a moody undertone. Really well seen!
They seemed alive already in spooky vestal way… a reference to Virgin Mary…
That last one is so creepy! It sends shivers down my spine!
i hope you are not too freaked out
Huge faves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some really strong iconic images here.
Really amazing figures and costumes.
I hear amazing music when I see these images.
Gaultier is an artitst.
And there was music. I am impressed.
Fantastic fashion and photography. In the 80′s I saw a 3-dimensional digital projection dance theatre production by Philip Glass. It was fascinating and inspiring.
Jean Paul Gauthier – one of my favorite designers ever. Beautifully captured!
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Wonderful! I love Monsieur Gaultier’s work, even his fragrances. Great shots, Barbara.
My goodness your stuff is awesome. I’ve been away too long! Too busy moving!
Cheers! I like it all!