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Simone Rocha’s Take on Jean Paul Gaultier

What do you get when you fuse an Irish-Chinese pagan feminist with a French couture house? Ask Simone Rocha. She’s the latest ‘guest‘ designer to be invited by Jean Paul Gaultier to bring her own spin to his remarkable legacy.
Simone Rocha is the latest guest couturier at Jean Paul Gaultier.
Simone Rocha is the latest guest couturier at Jean Paul Gaultier. (Estelle Hanania)
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When Simone Rocha was a fashion-obsessed teen working for her designer dad, John, in Dublin, the name Jean Paul Gaultier evoked a grab-bag of associations: powder pink, satin, a conical bra, a corset-shaped perfume bottle packed in an aluminium tin.

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Tim Blanks
Tim Blanks

Tim Blanks is Editor-at-Large at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and covers designers, fashion weeks and fashion’s creative class.

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