On Saturday, we drove to San Francisco to see the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the de Young Museum as part of our Gala 35th Wedding Anniversary Weekend. I'd heard that a number of the mannequins "speak," and I was almost more interested in that than in the clothes.
We wandered around the mammoth show, which involves a revolving catwalk and scads of outlandish but fascinating fashions with an emphasis on cone bras and corsets (he has supplied Madonna). Men in grand tie-on trains; men in pink jackets made of suspenders and corsets and garters, with cone-bra elbow patches. And lots of too-skinny-to-be-believed female mannequins.
Some of whom talked. Their faces were molded to the contours of the models who posed for them, and then video of the speaking model was projected onto the face. The faces seem amazingly plastic and lifelike.
The show is at the de Young Museum through August 19. (The next day, we took a hike, which was more up Jerry's alley.)
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| Palm Leaf Jacket Hat, 2003 |
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| The mannequin that spoke for Gaultier, explaining inspiration for his work |
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| La Mariee, 2008, a wedding gown with shell cone bra detail designed for a mermaid. |
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| Gaultier's childhood teddy bear, for whom he designed his first cone bra |
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| Naomi Campbell wearing a body suit, 1993. The pubic hair is cylindrical beads. |
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| A pick-me-up afterward, with creme brulee tart |
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| World's most adorable man, on the terrace of the DeYoung |
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