Spring 1995 Jean Paul Gaultier Fin de Siècle Collection Runway Paris Dress designer-jacques-heim Wonderfully made and hand finished

Wonderfully made and hand finished

As time passes this piece will only increase in value and is truly a collectible

There were great bright micro-flower print dresses and the obligatory slit-up-to-there red-carpet evening gowns

It is highly sculptural in feel with its wonderful draped panels layered and placed over and inner stiffened board

This is a lovely example from the 1950s made of a hand made lace and entirely done by hand for the construction as well

Spring 1995 Jean Paul Gaultier Fin de Siècle Collection Runway Paris Dress designer-jacques-heim Wonderfully made and hand finishedThis dress is from one of Gaultier's most memorable runway presentations, the collection where Madonna closed the show pushing an antique pram from which she lifted a young puppy to the great delight of the audience. Vogue'a Laird Borrelli Persson wrote in her review: We designers think weve invented something, but we havent at all, Jean Paul Gaultier told Vogue when talking about his Fin de Sicle collection, the subject of which was a century of