Jean Paul Gaultier Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, March 1991

“The Maestro of Mayhem,” by Georgina Howell was first published in the March 1991 issue of Vogue.

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The Maestro of Mayhem: Jean Paul Gaultier, fashion’s bad boy and Madonna’s favorite, shocks, entertains, and influences. But behind his wild ideas, Georgina Howell finds a man who can really cut a suit

Behind the sort-porn movies and the tourist cafés of the Champs Elysées, the Jean Paul Gaultier collection is about to begin.

It may not be Saint Laurent, but there are those for whom this weird spectacle is the only show in town. Diana Ross, for instance. Behind her peppermint white grin and panda sunglasses, she declares herself

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