From his childhood, Jean Paul Gaultier has retained a memory of perfect femininity; from his adolescence, the fidelity of friendship; from his apprenticeship with Pierre Cardin, the conviction that anything is possible; and from his long years designing under his own name, an enthusiasm for transgressing conventional codes of design for contemporary men and women. For the past 20 years, he has been demolishing traditional ideas in order to reconstruct and overturn the past. For more information on the legendary designer visit www.jeanpaul-gaultier.com