Jean Paul Gaultier x Simone Rocha

[gallianostan]

people should see me, they need a laugh

yes i agree

 

[Deleted member 116957]

ya got me

 

[gallianostan]

 

[jeanclaude]

Add Theyskens!!!

 

[gallianostan]

Add Theyskens!!!

!!!!

if fashion's resident runt olivier rousteing, or quintessential nepo baby simone rocha, can be invited over other established legends that have been working for decades and proven their worth time after time... it speaks to how gaultier's taste has deteriorated over the years.

Spoiler

but we could have seen that from the last ten years of his career anyway...

 

[Lola701]

Nicolas Di Felice is interesting…
I do not expect Gaultier to revive all TFS darlings because of Nostalgia…

I think what is interesting is to see who he has an eye on and what make sense for him. Galliano is already struggling to do Margiela at Margiela…Considering that Margiela comes from Gaultier, a Gaultier/Galliano collection is the last thing i would be excited about.

For me the only two that I would really love to see do a Gaultier couture would be Martin Margiela and Nicolas Ghesquière for the full circle moment.

I wish he would invited Junya Watanabe or Jun Takahashi.
He has called a free agent Haider Ackermann, so why not a free agent Riccardo Tisci.

 

[LadyJunon]

Someone said the next collab is with Courrèges but I don’t know if there’s any truth to it.

Nicolas Di Felice is interesting…

If Di Felice is next, then the collection and the soundtrack will definitely be fire.

For me the only two that I would really love to see do a Gaultier couture would be Martin Margiela and Nicolas Ghesquière for the full circle moment.

I wish he would invited Junya Watanabe or Jun Takahashi.
He has called a free agent Haider Ackermann, so why not a free agent Riccardo Tisci.

We definitely need to see Margiela and Ghesquière's takes on Gaultier. Junya and Tisci would be interesting to see too. Takahashi, not so much.

 

[Benn98]

All sounding a bit like H&M now. Spectacles. Marketing.
Is fashion in such a state that designers now moonlight for each other's brands? What good can be gained from this?

 

[gallianostan]

All sounding a bit like H&M now. Spectacles. Marketing.
Is fashion in such a state that designers now moonlight for each other's brands? What good can be gained from this?

haute couture in the modern age is and always has been about spectacle and marketing. chanel is probably the only house where which this age-old practice is actually very profitable. for everyone else, it's just image-making/building.

 

[Kanzai]

Guys, how about Frida and Stefano Pilati for Gaultier ??? Seem interesting

 

[tourbillions]

my wishlist includes pilati, tisci, burton, jeremy scott, morinaga or jonathan saunders just because i wanna see him in fashion again. JPG by Alessandro Michele will be interesting too

 

[Lola701]

Guys, how about Frida and Stefano Pilati for Gaultier ??? Seem interesting

Frida Giannini? Really?
I don’t even think people in Paris remember her…

haute couture in the modern age is and always has been about spectacle and marketing. chanel is probably the only house where which this age-old practice is actually very profitable. for everyone else, it's just image-making/building.

Dior has been profitable for a long long time too. Even the crazy Galliano shows which were for image had a totally different reality in terms of clients. We see it today through those auctions with the modifications having nothing to do with the original designs.

Couture had a resurgence in the early 2010’s. Now brands are making money out of it and creativity is a bit lacking. Couture nowadays is a bit too clients focused without the touch of a Couturier. It’s more about providing a service in a way. What’s the difference between Elie Saab and MGC? It’s the same approach when it shouldn’t!

 

[Squizree]

The prestige that Haute Couture adds to a fashion house is arguably worth much more than any temporary monetary losses.

 

[gallianostan]

my wishlist includes pilati, tisci, burton, jeremy scott, morinaga or jonathan saunders just because i wanna see him in fashion again. JPG by Alessandro Michele will be interesting too

jeremy scott? seriously?

 

[Lola701]

The prestige that Haute Couture adds to a fashion house is arguably worth much more than any temporary monetary losses.

But Haute Couture is an extremely expensive operation. Yes, it adds a value but it can also be a burden. We saw it with Alexandre Vauthier.
Couture, is only relevant when there’s a RTW or a business structure to back it up.

And it’s harder to recover from a temporary loss in Couture. Not all the looks are going to be sold and made. Not all the clients will be model size, not all the clients will want the runway look without modifications. And because Couture is an unfair game, the level of services is expected at all houses, from a house like Chanel that has been doing it for decades to a house like Armani who started 20 years ago or Vauthier who started in 2009.

 

[tricotineacetat]

The prestige that Haute Couture adds to a fashion house is arguably worth much more than any temporary monetary losses.

Not sure how much truth that holds in today‘s time when (1.) almost any major brand now has a private custom-made line gor the red carpet or made-to-order demi-couture pieces in their RTW (2.) we‘ve seen for years names on the Haute Couture calendar that either never grew a halo effect with it to drive the sales of other products in a major way - Think of On Aura Tout Vu, Jean Louis Scherrer, Stephane Rolland, or Alexis Mabille.

 

[oioioi]

For me the only two that I would really love to see do a Gaultier couture would be Martin Margiela and Nicolas Ghesquière for the full circle moment.

I read a brief interview I forget where where Gauthier half-jokingly mentioned Martin. I also watched an interview recently of JPG by a Russian interviewer (the interviewer was quite bad) she asked him if you had a big retrospective of your work and could invite 1 other designer to show together with that you really respect he said Martin Margiela. He said I hate to call him my ex assistant as he was much more than that, the interviewer asked 'what about Vetements? As it's similar' lol JPG was like um... (you can see why I say the interviewer was bad..lets not go further on that)