Gaultier for La Redoute

Those looking for haute French fashion through more quotidian channels may have had your hearts broken when Karl Lagerfeld's H&M collection sold out in a few hours. But don't fear: Jean-Paul Gautier is stepping into the breach, designing a capsule collection for LaRedoute.com, the catalog company who have been working with top designers such as Viktor & Rolf, Issey Miyake, Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel and Vanessa Bruno long before Lagerfeld was a profitable twinkle in H&M's eye. Judging from vogue.co.uk, it sounds as if Gautier's work of La Redoute will be a little more conservative than his usual shocking (though technically marvelous) oeuvre: there won't be any conical bras like he did for Madonna, for instance. (Damn! I really wanted one of those!) It's almost too bad that Gaultier's fanciful work will be a little watered-down; his doesn't seem like a vision that should be diluted. But then again, everyone wondered if he'd translate over at Hermes, and his work for the venerable house has garnered raves.

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