“She’s a miracle because, well, she’s Madonna”
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier – From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk exhibition is finally on at the Grand Palais in Paris, and in a candid interview with the Associated Press, the French couturier looks back through his four decades of creations and recalls the surprising origin of the bustier that first made him a household name in the U.S. – when a certain pop star from Michigan wore it on her Blond Ambition Tour in 1990.
It was not Madonna who wore my first conical bra, it was Nana my Teddy Bear. And when I was six, I wanted to have a doll, but my parents didn’t find it politically correct for a boy.
Madonna is still very much in his heart – and he defended her against ageist criticism that her fall in this year’s Brit Awards showed that, at 56 years old, she should be hanging up her pointy bra once and for all.
Why do they attack her because of her age, and they don’t do it to men? She got up as if it was nothing and to fall must have hurt a lot. She could have killed herself. She’s a miracle because, well, she’s Madonna.
The famed bra – and his Teddy Bear, Nana – can both be found in the exhibition in Paris, which will be running until August 3rd, 2015.
Tickets can be reserved in advance on the Grand Palais website.
(Photo credits: Pierre et Gilles. Courtesy of Exposition Grand Palais 2015)
(London – April 2014)
