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Dress
Spring/Summer 1996
- Designer:
- Jean-Paul GAULTIER
- Brand:
- Jean-Paul GAULTIER
- Label:
- Jean Paul GAULTIER MAILLE
- Material:
- Blue nylon net printed with navy and beige moiré pattern of human body.
A nylon net dress made of stretch fabric to create a smooth-fitting silhouette. The dress not only reveals the body line, but the thin fabric also reveals the body to create a sensual look. Taking a closer look at the curved navy lines of the dress, it becomes clear that these lines are a depiction of a body contour. The superimposition of the wearer’s actual form with an image of the form creates a visual misalignment.
Gaultier was one of the first designers to embody, in his designs, a body conscious silhouette and forms of physiological adornment such as cosmetic surgery, tattoos, and piercings, which were manifestations of a growing awareness amongst women of their own bodies and their search to achieve the ideal body during the 1980s and 1990s.