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Jean Paul Gaultier

French fashion designer
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Jean Paul Gaultier (born April 24, 1952, Arcueil, France) is a French fashion designer whose iconoclastic collections in the late 20th and early 21st centuries celebrated androgyny, blended street styles with haute couture, and juxtaposed other seemingly contradictory cultural symbols. Throughout his career he strove not only to redefine social categories but to draw attention to the role that fashion played in both distinguishing and obfuscating them. As a child growing up in a suburb...

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