UNITED STATES / DALLAS : THE FASHION WORLD OF JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE CATWALK

until Sunday February 12 2012
Tuesday–Sunday 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
75201 Dallas
United States

T : +1 214 922 1200
www.dm-art.org

The first exhibition dedicated to exploring the art of fashion at the DMA provides an unprecedented look at the designer dubbed fashion’s “enfant terrible”.

The exhibition - organized along six different thematic sections tracing the influences, from the streets of Paris to the world of science fiction, that have marked the couturier’s creative development, “The Odyssey of Jean Paul Gaultier,” “The Boudoir,” “Skin Deep,” “Punk Cancan,” “Urban Jungle,” and “Metropolis” - features approximately 130 ensembles from the designer’s couture collections, as well as from his prêt-à-porter line, along with their accessories.

Created between 1976 and 2010, the majority of these pieces have never been exhibited. Sketches, stage costumes, and excerpts from films, runway shows, concerts, dance performances, and televised interviews will all provide a look at the couturier’s world and will explore how his avant-garde fashions challenged societal and aesthetic codes in unexpected, and often humorous, ways. Fashion photography will also be a major focus of attention, thanks to loans of, in many cases, never-before-seen prints from renowned contemporary photographers and artists.

Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, the exhibition premiered in Montreal in June 2011, and will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, before traveling to its final stop in the U.S. at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, in March 2012. The exhibition will be on view at the Fundación Mapfre – Instituto de Cultura in Madrid, Spain, from September 26 through November 18, 2012, and to Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from February 9, 2013 through May 12, 2013, and then travel to Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm in June 2013.