Bread fashion by Jean-Paul Gaultier
At first you feel the smell of freshly baked bread, and then you start to see the wicker mannequins „dressed” in baguettes, country loaves, sour dough bread or even biscuits. This all happened in the museum of contemporary art from Paris, Fondation Cartier, which Jean-Paul Gaultier had transformed into a bakery. Helped by a team of famous bakers he remade some of his emblematic creations, including shoes, hats, dresses, skirts, an umbrella and even a Kelly bag and kilt. Maybe the most striking are the slices of fresh bread overlapping to form the cascading train of an evening gown. In order to keep the bread looking fresh, they used leavened dough rather than the yeast-free mix normally used in decorative baking.
Visitors could have taken home a designer croissant ringed with blue stripes, somewhat a replicate of Gaultier’s trademark seaman’s jersey.
About his “Pain Couture” exhibition, Jean-Paul Gaultier said: „the Fondation is a place devoted to art and I absolutely don’t consider myself an artist. With this exhibition, I wanted to show I am above all an artisan, and fashion is a craft, so I decided to put my trade on a level with bakery”.
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