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Jean Paul Gaultier | Evening ensemble | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean Paul Gaultier began as a free-spirited designer of prêt-a-porter collections, famed for the often louche references in his designs to Bettie Page waist-cinches and girdles, the mariner's sweater via "Querelle" and the Marseille waterfront, the gender-bending androgyny of men in skirts and women in pinstriped suits, and the insular and mysterious communities of Andalusian gypsies, Bedouins, and Manchu nomads

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