Item 2019.103 - Junior Gaultier Leopard Print Jeans

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2019.103

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Junior Gaultier Leopard Print Jeans

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  • Spring Summer 1989 (Creation)

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2 (trousers and belt)

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Junior Gaultier
(1988-1994)

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Jean Paul Gaultier launched the Junior Gaultier line in 1988. It was designed as a lower-priced range aimed at the youth market. The Junior Gaultier label was replaced in 1994 with JPG by Gaultier, a unisex collection.

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Westminster Menswear Archive

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Short trousers made from printed cotton denim, featuring a matching wide belt in the same fabric. The pattern is an animal print—leopard—consisting of dark olive green and black-edged spots on a pale yellow-tan background. The trousers extend just below the knee and have three front pockets: one on each side of the fly and an additional coin pocket on the right. There are two patch pockets on the rear. The matching belt has a large, square, gold-coloured metal buckle. A label on the back waistband is green with black lettering, size 40.
Country of Design: France.

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      Label: JUNIOR / GAULTIER / 40
      Materials: cotton, base metal
      Measurements:
      Length 29 1/2 inches
      Waist flat 13 1/2 inches
      Hips flat 19 inches
      Leg opening flat 7 inches

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      Invisible Men exhibition label:

      LEOPARD PRINT JACKET, T-SHIRT AND JEANS
      Junior Gaultier
      1989

      Junior Gaultier was one of the first and most successful designer diffusion collections of the 1980s making the work of Jean-Paul Gaultier accessible to a much wider global audience. This denim jacket features a leopard print design derived from the natural world camouflage pattern which enables big cat predators to merge with their habitat.

      Cotton
      Archive no. 2016.281 and 2017.051 and 2019.103

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      From Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive:

      LEOPARD PRINT TROUSERS
      Junior Gaultier
      Spring Summer 1989
      ‘Western Baroque’, Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring Summer 1989 menswear show, also featured the Junior Gaultier collection, which consisted of an array of leopard print garments for men, including blazers, jeans, denim jackets, T-shirts, cowboy hats and elbow-length gloves. While fur has historically been a symbol of wealth, class and social status, advances in pile fabrics and imitation and synthetic furs during the twentieth century made it more accessible and more strongly linked to women’s fashion. Leopard was an expensive fur, but its distinctive pattern could be applied to different fabrics and was especially popular from the 1940s onwards. The later adoption of leopard print for menswear by designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood and Celine subverted these gendered associations.
      Cotton
      Archive no. 2017.051

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