thatscool: June 2011

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier

L'Enfant Terrible: Jean Paul Gaultier

FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE CATWALK - MMFA

Exhibition June 17th to October 2nd, 2011. More details here > HERE

JEAN PAUL WITH MADONNA

LE SCANDALOUS

WHAAAAAAAT!

LE SAILOR

BOTH ABOVE IMAGES: Model Evandro Soldati in classic Jean Paul Gaultier shot by Giampaolo Sgura for Hercules Magazine
...AND LE MERMAID

Coco Rocha in a Gaultier mermaid wedding gown!
LE CORSET

Gaultier runway

Jean Paul Gaultier Skeleton Corset worn by Dita Von Teese at the Autumn/Winter 2010 fashion show
LE PUNK

Gaultier with Songstress Beth Ditto of The Gossip. Beth, along side other plus size models made an impact on Gaultier's Spring/Summer 2011 runway in Paris.

Backstage at Gaultier's Spring 2011 show
LE VIRGIN

Jessica Stam in Gaultier Spring 2007 haute couture collection

LE COSTUME DESIGN

Milla Jovovich as LeeLoo in The Fifth Element : all of the costumes in the movie by Jean Paul Gaultier
LE FRENCH CANCAN

All in Gaultier
spring/summer 2006
: Crystal Renn, Kemp Muhl, & Boris Kolesnikov model for Ellen Von Unwerth's camera in the Editorial Speeddating
LE GENDER-BLENDER

Jean Paul Gaultier now-classic TV commercial from 2006

Trans-gendered model Andrej Pejic for Gaultier's Spring/Summer 20011 Ad Campaign alongside Supermodel Karolina Kurkova
LE MAN HIMSELF

...you know you've made it when you've been featured on the Simpsons

Friday, June 17, 2011

Tree Life

Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson)

....written in 1812 by the Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss; this novel recounts the fictional tale of a family who, en route to Port Jackson, Australia, find themselves shipwrecked and lost in somewhere in the East Indies... while waiting for help, the family builds the most kick ass tree house EVER!

Movie set for Walt Disney's production of "Swiss Family Robinson." 1959.

Spotted by Art director John Howell through a gap in a fence surrounding a cricket field just outside the town of Goldsborough, Tobabgo. The 200-foot set was constructed in this living Samaan tree in 1959. Disney Studios originally planned to remove all evidence of movie-making from the island at the end of shooting, however the native Trinis fell in love with the structure and had it left as a tourist attraction. The treehouse structure was eventually ruined by a hurricane but the Samaan tree itself still survives today!!! ......What a tree.

Narrator: "On the golden sands of Miami Beach, a certain well-known champion of justice is secretly enjoying a much-needed rest. As he relaxes by the calm blue waters of the ocean, little does he realize that many miles away, float the victims of a shipwreck, the Swiss Cheese Family Robinson, hoping that somehow their message for help will reach civilization."

Free Spirit Sphere in British Colombia by Canadian carpenter Tom Chudleigh

Photograph by Eugenio Recuenco

Father Robinson: "Don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips. You know, if only people could have all this and be satisfied, I don't think there'd be any real problems in the world."