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Legend of a world fashion, the person who is able to inspire love by means of a fabric, scissors and pair of buttons. Unpredictable and explosive, ingenious and scandalous, it extends temperament of the creative energy to all products, are created in its house. «The awful child» French fashion, became worthy successor Christian Diora and Willows Sen Lorana.

Jean-Paul Gaultier was born on April, 24th, 1952. Has grown on suburb of Paris. He not especially took a great interest in game in Cossacks-robbers and football. To it was more comfortable in a society of girls. Teachers have not become rich on memoirs about small Jean-Paul - Gaultier seldom appeared at school. The album and colour pencils were the best friends to the future star. And the most part of its free time was devoted to cutting of dresses and inventing of a make up for teddy bear Nana.

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From the childhood Jean Pol Gaultier has got used to female features and trinkets. The future couturier watched closely magic of the grandmother. She is the medical sister who is a good judge both in cosmetics, and in hypnosis, under a TV low murmur did to neigbours pricks, painted hair or told fortune. So, in a society of girlfriends of mother, the aunt and the grandmother, young Jean Pol has learnt female secrets and secrets.

Jean's parents have supported desire of the son by all means to be engaged in a fashion.

On April, 24th, 1970, in 18 years, it became the assistant to the designer in the House of a fashion of Pierre Kardena. «When I have crossed a threshold of this fashionable house with mum, I terribly worried. Karden has offered me 500 francs a month. Certainly, I have agreed. I to much have learnt. To me have charged design of house utensils, I did plates. Karden has learnt me to scoop inspiration from everything, that us surrounds».

Since this moment before creation of the first collection there pass 6 years. For Gaultier's this time has time to leave Kardena, to work with other fashionable houses and designers, again to return to Kardenu. But this time Gaultier is engaged not in any plates, and develops collections for the USA - and on Philippines, in the hot city of Manila.

Gaultier does not perceive seriously the fashion industry, but it does not prevent to dream to it of creation of own line.

In 74th year it gets acquainted with Frensisom Menuzh, the future partner and the lover. With it in 1976 Gaultier creates the first collection which names the name. Critics then have mocked at strange dresses from wattled rugs.

There have passed some years before it became a part of the Parisian establishment. In 1978 "Kashijama", the Japanese fashionable company, has offered it job. Financial investments were instantly improved by Gaultier's affairs, and he at last has created own House of a fashion. The present popularity to it was brought by a collection of 1979 under the name "James Bond", made in stylistics 60. The history of glory of Gaultier has begun With it, proceeding and to this day.

Girls in dresses «Set de table», sewed of table napkins, in miniskirts and hats with soft fields, in trousers from leatherette have amazed public with originality on the verge of shocking and, simultaneously, beauty. Napkins were followed by men in skirts and jackets with an open back, fur decolletes and tennis shoes on a high sole. Gaultier was possible to reflect all political and moral contradictions of the epoch.

All have been shocked surprising "nefrantsuzskostju" these clothes. Gaultier has made the present revolution in consciousness of people. An aesthetics of movement of hippie, sidewalks King-Roud, concerts Sex Pistols, concierges with green hair - here a source of inspiration Gote. Gaultier dressed men in dresses, and women only in underwear and corsets. Public stayed in a shock and delight simultaneously.

The talent is usually many-sided. Presented artist Gaultier works not only on a podium. He thought out shocking suits for world tours of the Madonna, makes out theatrical performances and acts in a role of the costume designer at cinema and takes part in record of a musical album «How to do that?» On the Air Forces.

And after Gaultier became sovedushchim the cult English transfer "Eurotrash" full of obscenities and humour, it in general has turned to the general favourite. Rock stars asked from it the autograph, paparazzi pursued, admirers gave flowers and self-made cards.

Creating clothes of the future which bear on itself a print of fractional coexistence of set of directions of the present, he looks back often in the past. Closing time circles, it mixes the historical periods and images of people, joking changes the status of various subjects of clothes, breaks vision barriers between good and harm. In its models, even the most captious spectator never will meet any repetition. Moreover, each character created by the maestro consists of "Russian salad" of the styles reflecting features of its private world.

«The Breton T-short», or easier speaking, a sailor's stripped vest in a black-and-white strip which Jean Pol Gaultier uses many years as the uniform became its firm symbol legendary.

Jean-Paul Gaultier is not limited to creation of collections, it dictates a fashion, style and the relation to a life to everything, that does. He is engaged in design of furniture, lets out three lines of perfume, sports and jeans clothes. All is interesting to it - a tattoo and piercing, Haute Couture and pret-a-porter, the man and the woman, it dressed Israeli transsexual Dana International, and Chassidic rabbis took part in displays of a collection of Gaultier of 1993. It with ease combines a pack of the ballerina with a motorcycle leather jacket. This person is able everything, or nearly so all: to cut, mould, play with matters, to invent, process the bothered ideas and to do them by "last peep».

Its collections Haute Couture balance between durnovkusiem and elevated style, and, can, for this reason are so liked by stars and highly appreciated by professionals from a fashion.