Jean Paul Gaultier Closes His Ready-to-Wear Label

With yesterday’s announcement that Jean-Paul Gaultier is shuttering his women’s and men’s ready to wear business to focus on couture and beauty, so goes some of the most creative, camp and surprising moments in fashion. Yes, there was the outré cone bra made famous by Madonna during her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour, but there was so much more. In his nearly 40-year career, having started out as an assistant to Pierre Cardin, Gaultier has been arguably the industry’s biggest champion of provocative, gender-bending, multi-cultural creations.