JEAN PAUL GAULTIER.
“I always looked at fashion shows as a spectacle, and I love to incorporate some theatrical effects or to choose the girls who are not necessarily classical models – and who have personality,” says fashion icon Jean Paul Gaultier ahead of his Fashion Freak Show opening at London’s Southbank Centre. “When I stopped ready-to-wear in 2015 and dedicated myself only to haute couture, I thought that I could finally go back to my other love, and that was how Fashion Freak Show came into life. I wanted it to have a story, and which story do I know best?
