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The glitz from the opening of Montreal’s Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit + watch talking mannequins in action! | Hollywood yohana

 


“So pleased.” That was how Jean Paul Gaultier summed up his feelings about his retrospective Monday night at the VIP party held at Montreal’s Musée des Beaux-Arts. “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” opened Monday night with an intimate gathering that mixed Gaultier’s inner circle with Quebec designers and celebs. Male muse Tanel Bedrossiantz in skirt and mohawk, bald and tattooed Ève Salvail, Francisco Randez, star of Gaultier Le Male fragrance ads and doll-like French singer Arielle, in body-hugging tulle, joined musician Melissa Auf der Maur, International Herald Tribune critic Suzy Menkes, Newsweek’s Robin Givhan, and hairstylist Odile Gilbert in touring the show. An ebullient Gaultier, who initially had not been keen on the notion of a retrospective—“it can be like a funeral,” he told me back in January—was clearly enjoying himself, wandering the rooms and amiably chatting and posing for photos.

And funereal this show is not. High-tech mannequins commissioned for the exhibit feature talking, blinking facial projections of favourite Gaultier
models—a hint of how all mannequins may look if the technology can be mass-produced.
What can’t be mass-produced is the Gaultier couture on display: corsets woven from sheaves of wheat, feathered bustiers (for men), bodysuits with red sequined heart and veins, and those cone bras made famous by Madonna. Polaroids of early Madonna fittings and Gaultier’s childhood teddy bear—with its own rudimentary cone bra—are among the few artifacts that round out the exhibit. We wish there were more.
Four thousand guests were invited for another celebration last night and Gaultier will greet fans at The Bay today. After his three-hour autograph signing at Holt Renfrew on Saturday, they can expect a mob. But if there’s one thing made clear by Gaultier’s designs with their all-inclusive gender/culture mash-ups, this designer is a people person. “I love them and they love me, and this is why I do this, because I love people,” he said, smiling.

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Best gift idea ever? 100 must-buy pieces by the who’s who of Toronto’s contemporary art scene | Hollywood yohana




For those who the gift of a makeup compact simply will not satisfy, Toronto’s Neubacher Shor Contemporary gallery is hosting Highly Desirable, a show beginning tomorrow and running through December 23. The show is made up of over a hundred small pieces of artwork that made by a slew of artists both emerging and established. Featured artists include Thrush Holmes, Michael Adamson, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, and Royal Art Lodge founding member Adrian Williams.

With each piece priced below $2,000 (and with many much below that prince point), it’s a great opportunity to support the arts in Toronto and pick up something crafted by one of the who’s who in the young contemporary art scene. Ordon Edward’s Blissed Out is already on our Christmas list. We’re in love with its serene runway-like setting. Hit up tonight’s opening reception for 10 percent off every piece as well as first dibs.

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