Shirt
Designer Jean Paul Gaultier French
Not on view
A sailor's middy is now a torn piece of leather. Gaultier uses the ripping less as process the way Kawakubo does and more as narrative. He turns the crisp sailor of the heroic H.M.S. Pinafore into the louch Cocteau sailor, somewhere between a leather bar and On the Town.
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