Corset
Brand
Junior Gaultier
Designer
Jean Paul Gaultier
(born 1952)
c. 1992
Cotton denim
Museum purchase
Object number99.80.2
French designer Jean Paul Gaultier has often used denim in his work. As a pioneer of underwear-as-outerwear, Gaultier here used denim to fabricate a corset, shaping the denim around the body so that the stiff rows of top-stitching function as boning.
DescriptionDark blue denim corset / vest; shaped with multiple panels, underwire bust and CB lacings; gold metal logo buttons, CF; topstitched in tanExhibitions