Jean Paul Gaultier is launching a new ready-to-wear collection which reinterprets his trademark striped sailor tops. The collection will be available online at the end of the week, just in time for the LGBTQ Pride festival season.
US model Bella Hadidwill feature in the collections campaign, sporting the new ‘unisex, inclusive’ collection ‘that exudes sea air’. The collection revives Gaultier's ready-to-wear lines, it added.
Nicola Lecourt Mansion has created a black body mesh, strassed with stripes, while Spanish stylist Palomo Spain designed a floral corset. And German house Ottolinger has reworked the sailor shirt in a tight-fitting jumpsuit with distorted zebra stripes.
The conical bra made famous by Madonna has been reinterpreted by London-based Brazilian punk jewellery designer Alan Crocetti. Frenchman Marvin M'Toumo is in charge of the "shellfish and crustaceans" accessories.
Gaultier will resume his haute couture shows, also with guest stylists, in Paris in July,The first guest designer for Gaultier's couture collection is Japan's Chitose Abe, of the Sacai brand.












