What if we watched Jean Paul Gaultier at work giving the definitive master class on what constitutes the essence of his work?
Jean Paul Gaultier's work is making clothes, not putting on fashion shows, producing perfume, talking to the media or presenting programs on MTV. But making clothes. He sketches them, of course, but more importantly, he creates them by draping them, constructing them around the body of the fitting model.
12 of Jean Paul Gaultier's most iconic creations are re-created directly onto a fitting model, in front of the camera, in understated, white surroundings. 10 women's outfits and 2 men's outfits.
In Haute Couture, the "toile" is the first stage, carried out using untreated, beige linen, which enables appraisal of the style. Like a first draft, the moment during which everything can still be changed, before the creation takes on its final shape. Jean Paul Gaultier at work can be viewed as a sequence shot, in which the garments materialize before our eyes, revealing how his thought process develops between ideas and material. Gaultier's oeuvre, recounted by himself, in the first person - like a lasting legacy of creativity.
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