Jean-Paul Gaultier: LeMale

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Uvenio Salutes to Iconic: Jean-Paul Gaultier!

 

Jean Paul Gaultier  is a French haute couture and Pret-a-Porter fashion designer. Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. In the past, he has hosted the television series Eurotrash.

  Gaultier never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970. Afterwards he worked with Jacques Esterel in 1971 and Jean Patou later that year, then returning to manage the Pierre Cardin boutique in Manila for a year in 1974.

His first individual collection was released in 1976 and his characteristic irreverent style dates from 1981, and he has long been known as the enfant terrible of French fashion. Many of Gaultier's following collections have been based on street wear, focusing on popular culture, whereas others, particularly his Haute Couture collections, are very formal yet at the same time unusual and playful.
Although most people found his designs decadent at the time, fashion editors, notably Melka Tréanton of Elle, Claude Brouet and Catherine Lardeur of French Marie Claire, were seduced by his creativity and immediately noticed his mastery of tailoring and later launched his career.

 

 In 1985 he introduced man-skirts, and produced sculptured costumes for Madonna during the nineties, starting with her infamous cone bra for her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour, and designed the wardrobe for her 2006 Confessions Tour. Gaultier has also worked in close collaboration with Wolford Hosiery. He promoted the use of skirts, especially kilts on men's wardrobe, and the release of designer collections.

Gaultier caused shock by using unconventional models for his exhibitions, like older men and full-figured women, pierced and heavily tattooed models, and by playing with traditional gender roles in the shows. This earned him both criticism and enormous popularity.
At the end of the 1980s, Gaultier suffered some personal losses, including his lover and business partner Francis Menuge, who died of AIDS-related causes.

 

Gaultier designed the wardrobe of many motion pictures, including Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, Pedro Almodóvar's Kika, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children). He currently designs for three collections: his own couture and ready-to-wear lines, for both men and women.

In 1988 Gaultier released a dance single titled "How To Do That" on Fontana records from which came one of the first ever "single title" remix albums "Aow Tou Dou Zat" on Mercury records.^[9] The album includes mixes by Norman Cook, JJ Jeczalik, George Shilling, Mark Saunders, Latin Rascals, David Dorrell, Tim Atkins, Carl Atkins, and Mantronik. Co-written & produced by Tony Mansfield, video directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino. The album also featured a collaboration with accordion player Yvette Horner.

Gaultier has designed a number of the costumes and outfits worn by rocker Marilyn Manson, including the outfits for Manson's Golden Age of Grotesque album.^[ In France the costumes he designed for singer Mylène Farmer gained much attention. In spring 2008 he signed a contract to be again the fashion designer for her tour in 2009.

 

He's also well known for his exhibit in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art known as Bravehearts — Men in Skirts.^[ In 2013, the Brooklyn Museum opened a retrospective exhibit, “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk."

He has designed the costumes for Kylie Minogue's international KYLIEX2008 tour, as well as the late iconic Hong Kong singer Leslie Cheung, who hired Gaultier to design eight different costumes for the last concert tour before Cheung's death.

In 2012, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.This is the first time a fashion designer was called to sit on a jury at the festival. He also designed the dress that Anggun wore as she represented France during the grand-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2012 he also participated in the Cali ExpoShow in Cali (Colombia), showing his extense collection of perfumes and all classic clothes. 

  
Active Labels Labels include Jean Paul Gaultier, Gaultier PARIS – couture collection – and former JEAN'S Paul Gaultier, Eyewear Jean Paul Gaultier and Jean Paul Gaultier Argent. Besides his ready-to-wear collection, in 1988 Gaultier expanded his brand to include the label Junior Gaultier, a lower-priced line designed for the youth market with a heavy nautical influence that he began to carry throughout all of his collections.

 

 In 1988, a Junior Gaultier outfit was selected by Jeff Banks as the Dress of the Year The Junior Gaultier label was replaced in 1994 with JPG by Gaultier, a unisex collection that followed the designer's idea of fluidity of the sexes. Gaultier Jean's, a similar line consisting mainly of denim and more simply styled garments with a heavy street influence, followed in 1992, which was then replaced with Jean's Paul Gaultier from 2004 to 2008. Junior Gaultier's name was reused in 2009 for the launching of the child's wear, to be completed with a Baby Line in 2011.

What brought Gaultier immense success was the advent of his haute couture line in 1997. Through this collection, he was able to freely express the scope and range of his aesthetic, drawing inspiration from radically divergent cultures, from imperial India to Hasidic Judaism. As a result of this success, Hermès hired Gaultier as creative director from 2003 to 2010. Hermes took a 30% stake in Jean Paul Gaultier in 2003 and later increased their stake to 45%.^[

 

Jean Paul Gaultier licenses a line of perfumes in collaboration with Puig company. The first fragrance, Classique, a women's floral-oriental, was introduced in 1993, followed by Le Mâle for men two years later. Both were highly successful, and Le Mâle is now the number-one men's fragrance in the European Union based on sales; it also holds a strong market position in Australia and the United States.

 

The third fragrance, the women's fragrance Fragile, was introduced in 2000; however, it is now in limited distribution due to poor sales. In 2005, the unisex "fragrance for humanity" Gaultier² (pronounced Gaultier to the power of two) was launched (except in Canada, where it was launched in January 2006, and the United States, where it was launched in August 2006).

 

Most recently, a men's fragrance, Fleur du Mâle was launched in April 2007. Shortly thereafter, the "Eau de Cologne Fleur du Mâle" was released demonstrating a lighter version of the Fleur du Mâle. The newest in the Gaultier family of fragrances is ladies fragrance "Ma Dame".

The 6 July 2011 the new men's fragrance, Kokorico,^[ has been launched at the La Gaîté Lyrique, just after the Haute Couture F/w 2011-2012 fashion show^[
All Jean Paul Gaultier perfumes are produced under a long-term license by Paris-based Beauté Prestige International.

 

Gaultier gone Brooklyn!

The Brooklyn Museum is the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking French couturier. Playful, poetic, and transformative, Gaultier’s superbly crafted and detailed garments are inspired by the beauty and diversity of global cultures.

This multimedia exhibition is organized around seven themes tracing the influences on Gaultier's development—from the streets of Paris to the cinema—since he emerged as a designer in the 1970s. It features approximately 140 haute couture and prêt-à-porter ensembles, from the designer’s earliest to his most recent collections, many of which are displayed on custom mannequins with interactive faces created by high-definition audiovisual projections.

Accessories, sketches, stage costumes, excerpts from films, and documentation of runway shows, concerts, and dance performances, as well as photographs by fashion photographers and contemporary artists who stepped into Gaultier’s world, explore how his avant-garde designs challenge societal, gender, and aesthetic codes in unexpected ways.

 

SuperModel, Phil Fusco teamed with Ted Sun & Uvenio!

New York SuperModel, Phil Fusco has been working out since he was 14, and has entered the industry at the age of 17 and signed in 2009 with "Empire Model Management".

  Fusco has been able to achieve so much in a very short amount of time. He's modeled for "Score Underwear", "Vista Video", and "John Falocco", as well as gracing the coveted front cover of "Exercise Magazine" for men several times. Now at 25, he have appeared in numerous prints ads, muscle videos and in several magazines in fashion, prints  and muscles. He have worked with famed LA Photographer Ted Sun and since Ted teamed with Uvenio, Phil Fusco joined the team and to be seen in Uvenio designs!

LA Photographer, Ted Sun join Uvenio in latest Collection!

 

 

SEEING THINGS IN A DIFFERENT WAY. THAT IS PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY. AN ABILITY TO LOOK AT THINGS IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE. BRINGING THINGS TO EXISTENCE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE CAMERA AND GIVING LIFE TO ONES VISION AND DREAMS. IT’S ALL ABOUT CREATIVITY. BUT CREATIVITY NEEDS TO BE NOURISHED. IT NEEDS TO BE FED WITH INSPIRATION AND THAT CAN ONLY BE GAINED BY OPENING YOUR MIND AND FEEDING YOUR CURIOSITY. SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ALL ABOUT THAT IS TED SUN.

As he continues to explore his practice in portrait photography, Ted Sun is naturally being led to exploring fashion, and considering more how he wants to style the model. "I began reaching out to designers that caught my eye, and came across designer Christopher Uvenio, whose work I'd noticed had been featured many times on BeautifulMag,” Ted explains his new explorations in fashion photography. “We met up for coffee and instantly connected, and collaborated on an editorial shoot together. He provided me a bunch of fun designs to work with, including the silver hand-made mesh shirt for this shoot.”  

THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 196 COUNTRIES ON EARTH, SPREAD OVER 7 CONTINENTS. IT WOULD TAKE QUIET SOME TIME TO VISIT THEM ALL, BUT IT ISN’T IMPOSSIBLE. TED SUN HAS DONE ABOUT ONE THIRD OF IT, AND IT TOOK HIM 5 YEARS. WHICH COMES DOWN TO ROUGHLY 14 COUNTRIES BY YEAR. TED DID NOT ONLY VISIT THE COUNTRIES, HE ALSO TOOK TONS OF PICTURES. IN FACT IT IS SAFE TO STATE THAT HIS LOVE FOR TRAVELING INITIATED HIS PASSION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

 

 

Ted Sun has visited 70 countries across all 7 continents and did all that over a 5-year stretch from 2006 to 2011. He did this in company of his camera and took loads of photos, always looking for beautiful and interesting things. It’s often said that practice makes perfect.

 

Something that definitely applies to Ted’s work. How could it be otherwise. Taking so many pictures over such a time period can only lead to an enormous progress. Which eventually led to a whole new journey for Ted in 2012.

 

 

 It is often said that once you start to undertake big travels and spend extensive time abroad, the need to visit new places will stay in your blood. Since 2012 Ted Sun has been traveling in a very different universe. Was he first mostly active as a photographer during his many journeys to other countries and cultures, currently Ted occupies his time mostly with portrait photography.

Which doesn’t necessarily means he has completely settled down. Native Angeleno as he is, Ted lives and works in Los Angeles where he has a studio in the Hollywood Hills, near Sunset Plaza, but frequently crosses the continent to his other hometown New York City. Here in the trendy neighborhood Chelsea Ted has founded a second studio. 

Traveling and undertaking journeys can be an exciting thing to do without knowing where you might end up. In every aspect. Ted Sun first practiced visual arts while in college at Princeton. There he took a class in photography but his focus was more on video-film making. Nevertheless he graduated with a degree in psychology. After college Ted entered the fast world of advertising, managing ad campaigns for leading agencies and brands for 6 years. It was advertising that brought Ted from sunny California to New York.   

 

While in NYC he left the industry in 2005, trying all kinds of freelance work before picking up part-time work as a videographer. All of a sudden Ted found himself in a very flexible work schedule, which allowed him to start a new adventure in traveling which, as said before, eventually brought him back to his passion of photography. So you see, travelling can indeed bring you to an unexpected outcome.

His constant quest for beautiful and interesting things have initiated a curiosity in ted that eventually led to portrait photography. But not the standard work. No. Ted Sun combines his ability of catching the beauty in his surroundings with an experience of seeing beauty in people. Which results in some extra-ordinary work. Such as these breathtaking three series – Underwater, Joshua Tree and White Light. Poetic photography with respect for both model and scenery.

A combination of two elements in which both model and background are hero without fighting each other for attention. Writer henry Miller once said that one's destiny is never a place but a new way of seeing things. Something Ted Sun definitely has embraced.  

 

OMG! Marc Jacob leaves Louis Vuitton!

WOW! SHOCKING NEWS of MARC JACOB leaving VUITTON shocked the Fashion World!

Marc Jacobs, the star designer who turned Louis Vuitton from a staid luggage-maker into a global fashion brand, is leaving to focus on his own eponymous label, a source close to the French company's parent LVMH said on Wednesday.

 The move follows a series of leadership changes at Louis Vuitton, LVMH's cash cow and biggest profit- and revenue- contributor, aimed at helping the brand regain some of its lost prestige after a sustained decline in sales over the past year.

“Marc Jacobs is leaving Vuitton and will focus on his own brand,” the source said on condition of anonymity.

LVMH and Marc Jacobs declined to comment.\
 Jacobs' departure comes a month after LVMH founder and chief executive Bernard Arnault appointed his daughter Delphine as deputy head of Louis Vuitton and replaced last year longstanding chief Yves Carcelle with group veteran Michael Burke.

 Louis Vuitton, which built its name and profitability on its LV-embossed canvas bags, has been suffering from cooling demand in Asia and consumers' growing preference for no-logo products.

Over the past year, the brand has put brakes on its expansion, contributing to its sales growth halving to around 5 percent and last month, it hired accessories designer Darren Spaziani, ex-Proenza Schouler, to beef up its high-end offering of leather bags.

 

 Nicolas Ghesquiere, a darling of fashion editors, who left Balenciaga last year after having successfully revamped the Kering fashion brand, is seen as a frontrunner to replace Jacobs.

 

“It would be a positive sign if Ghesquiere joined Louis Vuitton as he is one of the most coveted designers today and he would give a creative jolt to the brand,” said David Da Maia, analyst at brokerage Aurel BGC in Paris.\

 Arnault has been regularly changing the creative and management teams of his fashion brands to refresh the style and drive expansion.\
 LVMH's Celine has been going from strength to strength since award-winning designer Phoebe Philo took its creative helm in 2008 while Riccardo Tisci has brought new vitality to Givenchy since his appointment in 2005.

 Jacobs, whose theatrical fashion shows contributed to heightening the brand's profile, introduced collaborations with artists such as Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse and recently rapper Kanye West to help make the brand more relevant to fashion followers.

Swan song
Marc Jacobs on Wednesday presented his last collection for Louis Vuitton, an all-black swan song that incorporated elements from his past shows such as the train station he famously reconstituted and the slow-turning white carousel carrying models, including Kate Moss, two years ago.

 Today, the Marc Jacobs brand and particularly its more accessible line Marc by Marc Jacobs, are among the most profitable fashion subsidiaries within LVMH, enjoying strong demand in the United States and Japan.

 

 Marc Jacobs also launched a cosmetics products line in August in the United States, with exclusive distribution handled by Sephora, LVMH's beauty products retail chain.
Media reports said the designer aimed to float his business - which is estimated to generate sales of around 500 million euros - on the New York Stock Exchange within a few years.

 

 Some industry observers suggest Marc Jacobs has been emboldened by the success of Michael Kors, the U.S. brand whose shares and sales have been enjoying stellar growth since the initial public offering late last year.

 

 

 At the age of 24, Jacobs was the youngest designer to receive the New Fashion Talent award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. After graduating from the Parsons New School of Design, Jacobs worked for Perry Ellis after the designer passed away and shortly thereafter created his own label in 1984 with partner Robert Duffy.
He became Louis Vuitton's artistic director in 1997.
When Dior sacked John Galliano two years ago after a video showed him making antisemitic comments in a Paris bar, Jacobs was one of the leading contenders to replace him but according to reports, talks fell through over terms. In the end, Dior took more than a year to appoint Raf Simons as its new designer.