The Genius is Back!

Fashion writer and blogger Melanie Rickey broke the news via her @fashedatlarge Twitter that Jean Paul Gaultier just confirmed that he is indeed creating costumes for Madonna’s forthcoming World Tour.

Here’s an excerpt from her scoop at fashioneditoratlarge.blogspot.fr:

Had one of those surreal moments just now at the launch of Jean Paul Gaultier for Diet Coke in Paris. (…)

So I ask him, “Jean Paul, I hear you are designing costumes for the forthcoming Madonna Tour?”

Or MDNA. Or whatever she is calling herself at the moment.

“But ow do yoo knoaw?” he responded in his lovable Franglais looking visibly surprised at my obviously inside information.

“Aha!” I answered, cryptically. The answer came in the affirmative “Well, yes. Yes I am. You are verrry well informed! Mebbee you know as much as me!” Then he giggled, but in a manly way, deep and throaty.

He said a bit more, but I’m writing it up for a piece in Grazia that comes out on May 1. But, guys! JPG for Madonna! Again, 22 years after he did it the first time for her Blond Ambition Tour in 1990. I was a mere teenager when this happened. And it did HAPPEN to me. I was there at Wembley strung out on cola bottles and crisps to keep my energy up so I could wait for hours to see Madonna the most powerful star on planet earth. Jean Paul Gaultier’s work for Madge was seared onto my mind both conscious and unconscious F O R E V E R.

Thanks to Jamie.