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THE NEW YORK TIMES
10-16-2013
THIERRY-MAXIME LORIOT, CURATOR OF THE JEAN PAUL GAULTIER EXHIBITION
Thierry-Maxime Loriot, Curator of the Jean Paul Gaultier ExhibitionEric Wilson
THE RUFFLE-AND-ROSETTE-FESTOONED corset that was being prepared for the Jean Paul Gaultier fashion exhibition making its long-awaited tour stop in New York at the Brooklyn Museum, beginning Oct. 25, had discreet panels of stretch fabric sewn into the sides. It was a spring 2011 sample created for Beth Ditto, the outspoken singer who once took Topshop to task for not offering larger sizes, who once pointed out that Karl Lagerfeld is a former “fat kid,” and who is not someone you would ever have expected to be found on a designer runway.
“There are no taboos or boundaries with Gaultier,” said Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the exceedingly handsome 37-year-old curator of “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier,” which originated in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2011 and has been seen by an estimated 940,000 people during its run in Dallas, San Francisco, Madrid, Rotterdam and Stockholm. Mr. Loriot pointed to the corset as a metaphor for the exhibition’s widespread appeal.
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