Jean Paul Gaultier combines corsets and religion
January 25, 2007 
World famous fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier has been wowing the fashion industry and public with his latest haute couture collection in Paris this week.
The French designer this year incorporated religious symbols inspired by the Virgin Mary together with more risque designs to both shock and inspire his audience.
Corset-inspired garments were also very much in evidence, with one of the more unusual moments coming courtesy of a model in a nun's wimple, who turned round to reveal her tightly laced-up corset.
Halo-like headwear and provocative uses of ecclesiastical imagery were also used, with the likes of famously corset-loving Dita von Teese - fresh from her split with husband Marilyn Manson - turning up to model the outfits.
Medieval paintings and stained glass windows were other conventions taken apart by the collection.
Gaultier said that the collection, which is more about fashion creativity than about clothes you can actually wear, was inspired by his religious childhood in Paris.
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