![]() “Is this cross-dressing, tailored-not-to-fit style a sort of fashion through the looking glass, a Dickensian carnival - or serious clothes?” the Washington Post asked in 1984. Gaultier, who in 1980 started out designing women’s clothes out of trash bags, had a reputation for turning conventions on their head, and then turning that into something nobody had ever seen before. ”He knows the color, he knows the flavor of New York.” ”I wanted the best and that is Jean-Paul,” Besson said in 1997. Just as Besson saw flying taxis as the future of transportation, he saw Gaultier as the only person who could express what the future of New York fashion would look like. Then Besson made the contact that would cement The Fifth Element’s legacy: designer Jean Paul Gaultier. Inspired by the work of French comic creators Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières, Besson contacted the two for ideas about the future of New York, with a heavy emphasis on flying taxis.
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