"Cinema and fashion. By Jean Paul Gaultier" has arrived to Barcelona after his go through the CaixaForum Madrid, museum in which it was exposed from 18 February to 5 June, can find now in the CaixaForum of Barcelona, of Monday to Friday of 10:00h to 20:00h.
It treats of an exploration crossed between cinema and fashion of the French designer Jean Paul Gaultier, one of the greater fashionable designers of the history. In this exhibition organized by the Foundation "La Caixa" and The Cinémathèque française presented the past 11 July in the CaixaForum of Barcelona, deepens in appearances like lto evolution of the bonds man-woman, the feminine emancipation, the modernity inside the clothes, the transitions of gender in the cinema, the eroticism and the roles to be able to. In definite, is a reflection of Jean Paul Gautier on the paper of the industry of the fashion and of the cinema in the society, his impact and transformation with the step of the years.
One of the peculiarities and cusp of this exhibition according to the criticisms, is the part in which it exposes the dresses that they wore in his moment Grace Jones in Panorama to kill (1985), Catherine Deneuve in '8 femmes' (2002), Grace Kelly in 'Rear window' (1954), Sharon Stone in 'Basic Instinct' (1992) and Marilyn Monroe in 'All about Eve' (1950) among others many in which we find for example the suit of Superman of Chistopher Reeve, or 'The mask of Zorro' of Antonio Banderas.
'Cinema and fashion. By Jean Paul Gaultier' divides in 5 fields:
1. Falbalas: This part of the exhibition is devoted to his friend Tonnie Marshall, uan film-maker that died in the 2020. Gaultier Discovered to Marshall with 13 years, while watched TV the film Falbalas of Jacques Becker.
2.♂ ♀: Here we find the 'evaporation' of the norms pre-established regarding the changing room of the woman. At the end of years 20, the women begin to demand his freedom freeing of the norms vestments, therefore, in this part of the exhibition exist references to Marilyn Monroe, Briggite Bardot, Jeanne Moreau or Catherine Denueve. This transgression of norms also gave in the masculine figure, since Jean Paul Gaultier was one of the first designers that incorporated elements of the feminine changing room in the masculine silhouette, for example, in the case of Marlon Brando.
3. Trangresiones: Very related with the previous, in this third station of the exhibition will find references to the extravagance in the cinema of the sixty and the seventy.
4. Pop and Metal: it does reference to the fashion of the decade of 1960, that considers like revolutionary and pro the presence of the metal in any of the cinematographic works of the moment.
5. Parades: here it recreates the environments of the high society that could attend to this type of events, where only can assist with invitation. In the eighties, no alone Jean Paul Gaultier, but also Thierry Mugler or Vivienne Westwood convert the fashionable parades in shows
An exhibition that is a delight so much for the lovers of the classical cinema as of the fashion, since these last will find designs of high sewing of Coco Channel Pierre Cardin, Hubert of Givenchy and Balenciaga, among others.