Jean Paul Gaultier is a pioneer of street casting, with dramatic designs that in turn lend themselves well to stand-out street style moments. As fashion’s “enfant terrible” approaches his 71st birthday we’re taking a look back at his body morph shirt. This ’90s classic, reworked for today, has muscled its way in front of the cameras with celebrities and influencers rocking revamped versions of the look from collaborations with Y/Project and Lotta Volkova.
Irene Kim is Vogue Runway’s Production and Editorial Associate. When not managing the Vogue team’s fashion week calendar, she’s probably searching through Phil Oh and Acielle Tanbetova’s archive for photos of Timothée Chalamet (she’s only found two so far) and writing street style trend reports.