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Jean Paul Gaultier
Gestural Lineages
Gender as construction
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Gender as construction
Jean Paul Gaultier
FAS–OTH–GAU
Gender as construction
Index Code:
FAS–OTH–GAU
Orgin:
Arcueil, France / Paris, France
Field Notes:
gender as construction · humor as heritage · rebellion as grace
Defining Moment:
Spring 1994 — Madonna’s cone corset entered iconography; subversion became canon

Jean Paul Gaultier

( 
1976 – 2020
 )
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Gaultier turned rebellion into craft.

Corsets, sailors, and gender play formed a vocabulary where parody met precision.

He treated couture as conversation — between bodies, cultures, and codes — a theatre of inclusivity before the word existed.

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His world was joyful resistance: tradition re-stitched with irony, elegance laughing at itself.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Jean Paul Gaultier’s work, this approach appears where repetition articulates the body through structure.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Jean Paul Gaultier’s work, this approach appears where repetition articulates the body through structure.
Hard Systems
Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Gesture
Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.
Proportion
Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.
Fashion
Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.
Contemporary
Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
John Galliano
Excess as discipline
Alexander McQueen
Beauty as violence

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