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Jean Paul Gaultier

French fashion designer
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April 24, 1952, Arcueil, France (age 71)
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Jean Paul Gaultier (born April 24, 1952, Arcueil, France) French fashion designer whose iconoclastic collections in the late 20th and early 21st centuries celebrated androgyny, blended street styles with haute couture, and juxtaposed other seemingly contradictory cultural symbols. Throughout his career he strove not only to redefine social categories but to draw attention to the role that fashion played in both distinguishing and obfuscating them. As a child growing up in a suburb of Paris, Gaultier showed an affinity for fashion. Inspired by the clothing designs he saw on television and in fashion magazines such as Elle, he began to ...(100 of 778 words)

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