Jean Paul Gaultier: the it-girls favorite designer Despite the designer's farewell to the catwalks, the celeb still love the brand's archival pieces

It is clear that all the it-girls of the moment seem to have a soft spot for the enfant terrible of French couture, Jean Paul Gaultier. From Kim Kardashian, who, in the front row of the Fall 2022 Couture show with her daughter North, wore a dress from Olivier Rousteing's Jean Paul Gaultier collection that was an homage to the designer's look that Madonna wore in 1992, to Bella Hadid, who enchanted Cannes Festival with a 2002 dress by the brand, to Kylie Jenner who chose a skin-tight green bodycon dress from SS87 (rumored to be worth over $15,000) for her family reunion with Travis Scott and Stormi. More examples? Dua Lipa, who on the occasion of the video clip of Demeanor showed off an opulent Marie Antoinette-inspired costume by Gaultier, from the 1998 collection entitled Les Marquis Touaregs, a tribute to the French Ancien Régime as Sofia Coppola delivered it to our imagination and Madonna's outfit for Vogue's performance at the 1990 MTV Awards. And again, how can we not mention Jean Paul Gaultier's obsession with polka-dot prints from the historic Cyberbaba show in 1996 or the naked print brought back into vogue by the Jean Paul Gaultier x Lotta Volkova capsule in which some of the brand's archival pieces are revisited in a way appealing to Generation Z?

It is difficult to believe that Jean Paul Gaultier's farewell is definitive, that a man able to amaze with projects that are always different from each other, able to anticipate the body positive movement with his choices in terms of casting and to push the limits of gender distinction in terms of clothing, may simply disappear from the radar and enjoy retirement. What is certain is that his artistic heritage has had the opportunity to shine once again thanks to the new generations of designers to whom the designer has passed the baton, while vintage garments are the real attraction of the red carpets, showing us once again how fashion can always be current regardless the passing trends.