Photography students put a subversive lens on Jean Paul Gaultier perfumes
FRAGRANCE FOLLIES: perfume bottles are crushed in jelly salads, shoved in underwear and cradled in various nether regions.
This is a provocative exhibition at Jean Paul Gaultier's Paris headquarters, open to the public for the first time until Sunday.
Title "Under Your Smell", the exhibition features the work of 29 second-year photography students at the University of Art and Design in Lausanne, also known as ECAL, which was given carte blanche to interpret Jean Paul Gaultier's iconic fragrances, including Le Male, first launched in 1995.< /p>
Florence Tétier, creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier fashion, said the creative exercise gave "a very, very new vision" to fragrances, with most students referring to how the founder "worked around the body and the fluidity of genres".
Related GalleriesMany of the 60 images have been enlarged to billboard size on canvases hung in the vast space where Jean Paul Gaultier couture collections parade twice a year. Visitors may need to step back to know exactly what part of the body they are looking at.
Many students played with the cap of the Scandal women's perfume bottle, with two beautiful legs silver that sting outside. One placed the bonnet on a woman's big toe; another stuck a limb in an earlobe with a pierced tunnel.
The cap of Jean Paul Gaultier's Scandal perfume, worn as an earring. Courtesy of ECALThe exhibition has been timed to coincide with the 25th edition of Paris Photo, the international exhibition for photography that takes place at the ephemeral structure of the Grand Palais Éphémère planted at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
Spanish actress Rossy da Palma, who often wears Jean Paul Gaultier on and off screen , is the guest of honor at Paris Photo this year and wore a look from the brand's current Cyber Collection at a preview on Wednesday night in Paris. It's a nod to a print by Victor Vasarely used in the founder's 1995 collection known as "Les Amazones".
FRAGRANCE FOLLIES: perfume bottles are crushed in jelly salads, shoved in underwear and cradled in various nether regions.
This is a provocative exhibition at Jean Paul Gaultier's Paris headquarters, open to the public for the first time until Sunday.
Title "Under Your Smell", the exhibition features the work of 29 second-year photography students at the University of Art and Design in Lausanne, also known as ECAL, which was given carte blanche to interpret Jean Paul Gaultier's iconic fragrances, including Le Male, first launched in 1995.< /p>
Florence Tétier, creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier fashion, said the creative exercise gave "a very, very new vision" to fragrances, with most students referring to how the founder "worked around the body and the fluidity of genres".
Related GalleriesMany of the 60 images have been enlarged to billboard size on canvases hung in the vast space where Jean Paul Gaultier couture collections parade twice a year. Visitors may need to step back to know exactly what part of the body they are looking at.
Many students played with the cap of the Scandal women's perfume bottle, with two beautiful legs silver that sting outside. One placed the bonnet on a woman's big toe; another stuck a limb in an earlobe with a pierced tunnel.
The cap of Jean Paul Gaultier's Scandal perfume, worn as an earring. Courtesy of ECALThe exhibition has been timed to coincide with the 25th edition of Paris Photo, the international exhibition for photography that takes place at the ephemeral structure of the Grand Palais Éphémère planted at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
Spanish actress Rossy da Palma, who often wears Jean Paul Gaultier on and off screen , is the guest of honor at Paris Photo this year and wore a look from the brand's current Cyber Collection at a preview on Wednesday night in Paris. It's a nod to a print by Victor Vasarely used in the founder's 1995 collection known as "Les Amazones".
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