From his childhood, Jean Paul Gaultier has retained a memory of perfect femininity; from his adolescence, the fidelity of friendship; from his apprenticeship with Pierre Cardin, the conviction that anything is possible; and from his long years designing under his own name, an enthusiasm for transgressing conventional codes of design for contemporary men and women. For the past 20 years, he has been demolishing traditional ideas in order to reconstruct and overturn the past.
Since Jean Paul Gaultier's first men's collection, he has shown men that they can indulge in the forbidden, and that a kilt or dress can be worn with virility. A reminder to them that nothing in life is totally black or white but always a blend. Just as he made the woman in a corset as the symbol and bottle of his feminine fragrance, Jean Paul Gaultier now transforms the man in a sailor's T-shirt into both the symbol and bottle of 'Le Male.'