Legendary French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier will retire from fashion after a typically spectacular show in Paris on Wednesday (Jan 22). His brand stated that his perfume brand and high-end haute couture business, Gaultier Paris, would live on. Gaultier stopped designing ready-to-wear clothes in 2015 to concentrate on haute couture – extravagant handmade clothes which only the world's richest women can afford. A model presents a creation by Jean-Paul Gaultier during the women's Spring/Summer 2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris. Body-positive pioneerNever less than flamboyant, Gaultier was a fashion prodigy, becoming the personal assistant of French style legend Pierre Cardin at just 18.

Source: The Star January 23, 2020 01:41 UTC