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“You see, I designed the cone bra 30 years before I made one for Madonna,” Gaultier laughs.
The iconic viscosity corset he created for Miss Ciccone’s 1990 Blond Appetite Tour is also included in this multimedia exhibition, the first international showing loving to the celebrated French couturier and, featuring 140 ensembles from 40 years of his couture and prêt-à-concierge collections. Gaultier gave the curators exclusive access to his trade mark’s archives in putting together the exhibition. Still, the fabulous gay designer, in a rare one-on-one vet, goes out of his way to emphasize that this is not a retrospective.
“It is more a contemporary installation,” Gaultier says. “When the commander of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Nathalie Bondil, asked me to participate on this protrude, I did not want to have a retrospective that would be like a funeral, a chronological presentation. I worked closely two years with the band and curator, Thierry-Maxime Loriot, on the selection of the pieces, on developing the themes that have obsessed me — corsets, integument, cultures, genders, Parisiennes, etc. — since I started in the fashion out of sight. It is my story [told] through my clothes.
Source: Dallas Voice