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Added 2024-07-09 18:52:32 +0000 UTCWhen Luc Besson thought about bringing a vibrant, outlandish sensibility to the costumes for The Fifth Element, he couldn’t imagine anyone but Jean Paul Gaultier for the job. Gaultier’s work proved to be one of the most ambitious conceptual achievements in the history of cinematic wardrobe. He created over 1,000 individual costumes for the film. He created an entire fictional style language.
As Theirry-Maxime Loriot put it at a Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ retrospective on Gaultier’s work, “A thousand costumes is like 10 collections but all for one movie. It’s an incredible amount of work people don’t even know about. For a thousand costumes, he may have even done 5,000 sketches before narrowing it down.” This massive output allowed this one film to have an outsized impact on fashion, and while Gaultier was already incredibly famous, The Fifth Element introduced his work to a whole new audience simultaneously redefining what a “futuristic” aesthetic can be.
