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Jean Paul Gaultier is no stranger to pushing the boundaries. …The movie, ‘Confession of a Child of the Century,’ bowled Gaultier over. ‘I said my god he is so seductive, a decadent dandy,’ said the designer backstage. ‘And that’s my collection.’

I’m lovin this: Shoulders, Deco angles, lush fabric and colors…

Beautiful. Classic. Unfortunately the pattern is created by light projected onto the dress, so ya need a really Big Purse to carry that around with ya…. While ya pose artfully in the dark.

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Simmah Down, now — It’s a Man, baby…

*Disclaimer: Yes — Haute Couture [or Couturiers] is it’s own, self-referential Art Form not designed for use on a day to day basis by, well, anyone.

22 Comments!

  1. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 8:06 am |

    Derivative!

    Since the link didn’t work, here’s the real thing:

    Hope y’all weren’t expecting something more, how you say, exotic.

  2. N.O'Really
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 8:25 am |

    Very thoughtful of the designer to show us where he thinks the G spot is, in that first image.

    DougM, your link leads to a Referral Denied page.

  3. Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 8:30 am |

    Referential Denied: Error 607

  4. Posted July 5, 2012 at 8:33 am |

    ^^We’re probably lucky, knowing Doug’s sensa humor.

    Espescially after the boy/girl model……… you guys check it out and get back to us with safe or brain bleach please?

    :)

  5. geezerette
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 8:38 am |

    Dam not for daily use??? I was thinkin’ they’d both look good with bare feet.

  6. Brad
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 10:33 am |

    You need to say it is a man BEFORE you show me the picture.

    I feel really ICKY now.

    nttawwt.

  7. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 10:39 am |

    I have never, nor do I purport now, to have any knowledge of women`s clothing.
    Growing up in Kenucky, I thought that women got all their clothing at Montgomery Wards.

    Which brings me to my questions. For the KisPerettes:
    1.How does the woman in the blue gown (…w an 18 inch waist and a fucking 8 foot diameter bottom of her gown): Go potty? Get in/out of a car? Walk through a normal-sized door? Sit in a chair to dine? Go up/down stairs? Know where are feet are stepping? Dance? Get through a crowded room? Hang the dress in a closet?
    For Red State girls: Milk a cow? Keep mud offa the gown bottom? Shoot from a prone position? Eat a barbecued baby beef rib?

    I swan, I don`t know the answers, but ain`t too proud to ask…..

  8. dick, not quite dead white guy
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 10:56 am |

    David Bowie is still modelling, huh?

  9. geezerette
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 11:18 am |

    If you believe the western romance novels and western movies being a lady -ahem-you’d wonder the same thing– ‘specially the potty/personal thing. How’d day do dat??? peeeuuu!!

  10. ZZMike
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 1:17 pm |

    COL Jerry: “1.How does the woman in the blue gown …: Go potty? Get in/out of a car?

    Same way they did back in the 1800s. (Except for the car thing. It was wagons then.) Ever see “Gone With the Wind”?

    I’ve always suspected that women’s clothing designers are misogynists. Especially the guys (and it is guys, right?) who come up with 18″ platform shoes. (Putting 200 ft-lbs of torque on your ankles is really not a good thing.)

    The two photos (and the clothes are always called “creations”, not “dresses”) show outfits that the average working woman might wear to the office. Or to the opera. Or on a dinner date.

    “… light projected onto the dress.”

    No creativity. No thinking outside the box. Dummies: put the lights inside. Got plenty of room.

  11. Darrell
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 2:36 pm |

    That whole second dress could be made of fabric incorporating LCDs or OLEDs
    The patterns could change like that canopy in Vegas. The images could move– a squadron of F-22 Raptors traveling from the viewers bottom left to the top right, for example.

  12. Paul
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 4:53 pm |

    Is that last one, the flat chested blond, a he or she?

    Who knows in their world.

  13. mech
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 5:23 pm |

  14. Melissa In Texas
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 5:38 pm |

    ^LOL^
    Screw it!
    Tank tops and shorts are the rule.

  15. Lord of the Fleas
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 7:06 pm |

    Is that last one, the flat chested blond, a he or she? Who knows in their world. – Paul

    Who knows? Hell, in their world, it’s “who cares? – they’re interchangeable.”

    (Now I’m the one feeling icky ….)

  16. Reg
    Posted July 6, 2012 at 12:46 am |

    Back in the late 1980′s, I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Gaultier at a reception for the company I worked for. He seemed to be very intelligent, and very well spoken. But, at the same time came off as bat shit crazy! One of the ladies who worked in the French office said he was ALWAYS hanging around with some whacko idea. And that he is gay as a carnival!

  17. mojo
    Posted July 6, 2012 at 7:26 am |

    Haute Coture is God’s way of telling you that you have too much money and no brains.

  18. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted July 6, 2012 at 8:50 am |

    Melissa (14)
    Had a hard time finding a tank-top joke that didn’t involve a turret,
    so you’ll have to settle for this:

  19. Posted July 6, 2012 at 9:48 am |

    Horry Clap! Now anyone can be a hautse caricaturist

  20. Posted July 6, 2012 at 9:49 am |

    Doug – best of the day

  21. mojo
    Posted July 6, 2012 at 2:34 pm |

    Unless that second model’s legs are about 5 feet long, she’s standing on a box.

  22. Ironic in Denver
    Posted July 9, 2012 at 6:34 pm |

    Simmah Down, now — It’s a Man, baby…

    Oh, I thought maybe it was one of the actors in a new “aliens visit earth movie” — or maybe a remake of “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”

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