"Arabesque penchée", Jean Paul Gaultier

• Jean Paul Gaultier

• Inscription for the runway show on the trench coat gown in hand-written adhesive satin, inside neckline at mid back, black on ivory: "HCAH11-12 / #28"
• Haute couture, fall-winter 2011, "Black Swan" collection
• Mastic-toned silk faille; mastic silk satin crepe; elements in horn
• GAL2017.29.1.1-3
• Jean Paul Gaultier donation – Vogue Paris Foundation 2016
• Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Jean Paul Gaultier has a particular affection for the back. In 1983, he was the first designer to propose a naked back for men, whereas this area is a symbol of eroticism in women. From then on, his creative gaze would never stop focusing on the back of the body. 
In this dress, Gaultier mixes stylistic vocabularies: he combines his taste for the trench coat strapped to the draped bare back that he concludes with a tripartite train, creating a new kind of imprint on the ground.

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