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, he’s part of a generation of late-thirties designers who are upending the designer industrial complex. With his work at Diesel, a denim brand, he affirms that for them, it’s far more interesting to be working on somethingif not mass-produced, then at least more mass-minded than pyramidical luxury fashion.
If vulgarity has previously been his preferred method of subversion, eroticism was his chosen disruptor for couture. Hence the emphasis on that “womanly womanhood” and “sculptural goddess” strain of Gaultier’s DNA. Chunky cable-knitted dresses — again, very Gaultier— were constructed in one piece, even braided with denim in one look, but with an exaggerated Cola-bottle hourglass silhouette.