Julien Dossena will design the next haute couture collection by Jean Paul Gautier. The French label has heralded this new collaborative effort as “a fusion of the creative DNAs of Paco RabanneJean Paul Gaultier

Gaultier and Dossena had met only once, briefly, during a photo shoot a few years ago. This is the first time that Dossena, who since 2013 has been in charge of style at Paco Rabanne – a label owned by the Puigenfant terrible‘, exited in 2020.

Gaultier sold his label to Catalan group Puig in 2011 and stopped producing ready-to-wear collections in 2015. He brought his career to an end with a last haute couture collection presented in January 2020, in a memorable show at the Châtelet theatre in Paris.