“Over the past several years, I have been approached countless times to create my own brand,” said Madame Ciccone. “The timing is right and I have found great partners in Iconix, who can help translate my vision to reality.”

Iconix CEO Neil Cole seconded that emotion: “After the highly successful launch of the junior brand Material Girl, we knew there would be a tremendous demand for a brand that Madonna herself is the face of and that truly captures her essence.”

Lady Madonna is already developing a scent with noted celebrity perfumer Coty and will eventually roll out footwear, handbags and intimate apparel.

Is anyone else hoping for a mass-produced version of the Gaultier cone bra? [WWD]

A teaser trailer debuted on YouTube a few days ago and if anything,  it clearly shows that the French know how to go about making a professional documentary. [WWD]

Gaultier is the most recent addition to the Puig fashion family, which includes Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera and Paco Rabanne. JPG will step down as president, making room for Manuel Puig (right), so that he can focus his attentions — thankfully — on designing his couture and ready-to-wear collections.

The past few seasons have seen Gaultier in a creative rut, but the designer is happy about the new partnership, saying of the Puigs: “They know what they want to achieve and they are buying Gaultier for Gaultier, not to turn it into something else.”  Well, they could at least turn it into a good label again…I’m just sayin’. [WWD]

Gaultier staged a cheeky show for A/W 2011. Models sported gray wigs and retro prints, flinging coats to the floor at the end of the runway. Playful as it was, elegance was not sacrificed. The styles balanced tight tailoring with Parisian classic chic.

The crowd was speckled with celebrity, among who included Kanye West and Amanda Lear. Backstage post-show, Gaultier shifted focus to Galliano. The designer offered up the following in an interview with Telegraph:

Galliano is “such a wonderful person. I can’t believe that he makes some racist toward somebody, because he’s so international [ ...] I think that somebody wants to try to be bad with him. I think la Maison Dior should make to him a big red carpet because he helped Maison Dior to be what it is today. I don’t want to judge anybody, but I love John. John, I am with you.”

Overall, Gaultier delivered a strong collection that embraced his 58 years of age. Gotta love those shiny, satin pant prints; the fur-lined luggage was a nice touch, too.

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At an age when many of us can’t even afford a couture gown let alone make one, Maxime Simoëns has joined the official Couture calendar. What’s even more impressive, he’s the first designer to do so without ever having staged a runway.  But before sending out his first painfully constructed garment down the Parisian runway this week, the young couturier shared his inspirations and insights with Style.com.

Your first interest was film. Why did you abandon it for fashion?

Starting from the age of five or six I was totally taken by James Dean, Charlie Chaplin, and Marilyn Monroe. Then I got to film school and found it too technical and scientific—all physics, math, chemistry. I wanted to express myself more concretely; I was thinking less about science and more about the narration of a heroine. Then came Madonna’s “Drowned” World Tour and I took one look at the costumes and silhouettes—and of course the corsets—by Jean Paul Gaultier, and I knew. I went home and started to draw. It totally threw my parents off because after ten years of talking about film I turned around and told them it was going to be fashion.

What happened once you arrived in Paris?

I attended the Chambre Syndicale, and I figured that since Gaultier was my inspiration my first internship should be there. It’s very complicated to get an internship there, so I knocked on all the doors I could, and then I hand-embroidered a letter on a corset that I made out of python and painted. It took my whole summer vacation—the corset, the packaging, everything. Mr. Gaultier never saw it, but his assistants did. It made the rounds in-house and that’s how I got my internship in the accessories department.

You also interned at Christian Dior and Balenciaga. What were the takeaways there?

I was an assistant stylist in the embroidery atelier at Dior. So much happens at the last minute that it was a lesson in working on a tight deadline. As an assistant stylist at Balenciaga I worked on inspirations and embroidery, especially prints. Once, two weeks before the show, we changed everything. It was sort of a liturgical theme, and then it was flowers. Working with Nicolas [Ghesquière] is great because he pushes everything to the limit.

How did the annual fashion and photography festival at Hyères become your launching pad?

Hyères is usually about a concept, but some journalists told me that my mini-collection of seven pieces had commercial potential. We presented at Hyères and found ourselves with orders for 600 pieces, which was enormous. I couldn’t work out of my apartment anymore; we had to really set up a house. Then, unexpectedly, the numbers doubled with the second collection. At the same time, Gossip Girl stylist Eric Daman was scouting for the Paris shoot and he liked the collection. It gave us great exposure, and we [Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester] hit it off.

Is that how the couture connection came about?

Didier Grumbach [president of the Fédération Française de la Couture] had encouraged me to participate in Couture week, but I wasn’t sure at first because couture seemed to me a bit old-fashioned. In the end I decided to do it because it wasn’t about aligning with an old image, it was about a new vision of couture. The timing is perfect because ready-to-wear arrives in stores a week later.

What is your take on couture?

For me it’s not about made-to-measure. It’s more about normalized sizing with French creativity and quality. There’s a whole French generation emerging that’s interested in preserving that tradition. Since we took over Lacroix’s old atelier, we have artisanal know-how to back us up and the capacity to deliver quickly. Those two factors make [creating couture] feasible. The idea with our atelier is to support the young coalition and help consolidate the new generation of French couture.

Who are this season’s heroines?

There’s a Sofia Coppola inspiration for both parts of the collection. The first, which I call “Cherry Blossom Girl,” is dedicated to sacrificial heroines like the teenage ones in Virgin Suicides, but with glamour, geometry, and elegance. The second part is called “This, Madame, Is Paris,” which is inspired by Marie Antoinette. For my first Couture show I wanted a theme that was very French, so I chose the absolute icon.

How do you render an icon of excess in neo-minimalist times?

Instead of panniers and frills I worked a lot on fabric, in mille-feuilles and prints. One print is black marble; another is lace transformed into jacquard that is slightly industrial; and another is a pixelated version of a painting the Queen commissioned for the Petit Trianon. Then you get to a heavier jacquard that I created from droplets of blood Photoshopped and reworked in color, thread by thread. But even if her end was somber, we focused on the lighter, iconic side of things—handmade flowers in leather, white gowns embroidered with stones. And there’s a chain theme to invoke the idea of being chained to one’s destiny.

Has Sofia Coppola seen the collection?

No, but she’s invited!

Link Love: Style.com

The awaited Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla lingerie is set to hit the stores in November with the price range of $618 to $1,236. It will be available in La Perla and JP Gaultier boutiques and select department stores.

So while we wait, check out the close-ups here.

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However, her new runway shows for Chanel and her Jean Paul Gaultier ads show a skinnier side of Crystal. Can she still be considered a plus-size model?

Here is a picture from when she had her curves and natural body:

Now here are her newest photos:

Do you think Crystal is becoming to skinny again?

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Is there anything that says LADY more than a head scarf?  Ping Hue Chung, the comeback kid Crystal Renn and Kelly Moreira are just sitting back in their Gaultier, clutches in hand, waiting for the orgy to start. Or maybe it’s over and they’re waiting for a bus. Either way, I’m over people wearing pants.

(Hint: It’s in the turban)

Kloss continues to channel classic film noir femme fatales, as seen here in the recent Gaultier HC show in Paris. And let’s not forget her dead on Betty Bacall for Dior:

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Canadian model Robert Perovich was photographed by Jean Baptiste Mondino for the new fragrance Le Male Terrible  by Jean Paul Gaultier.

source: MM Scene | ParisianBoys

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Jean Paul Gaultier – Paris, June 24, 2010. Designer: Jean Paul Gaultier

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Check out images of various Spring/Summer 2010 Haute Couture collections, shot by famed photographer Simon Proctor for the upcoming V MAGAZINE (issue #65). The featured Haute Couture collections include Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Giorgio Armani Privé, Valentino, and Gaultier Paris.

Photographer: Simon Proctor

2) Demeulemeester leather pant (shout out to my friend Marcel!)

3) Neneh Cherry redux at Gaultier

Love all three of these looks..how about you guys?

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