JPG x KNWLS AW23 | Terminal 27

Date: 09/28/2023

Photographer: Antoine Spinardo
Stylist: Viviana Lira
Model: Lexi Kingery
Assistant: Min Khaing

Autumn-Winter 2023 Editorial

Jean Paul Gaultier meets South London based brand KNWLS, the result being a 42-piece collection that draws inspiration from the late ’90s and early 2000s. The collaboration references tailoring and colorways from Gaultier’s SS04 collection Homage à la Breauté des Rousses, as well as corsetry from Madonna’s 1990 Blond Ambition tour.

"I think we really wanted to make sure that we didn’t do one of those collabs where we just pointed at things and said “Let’s make it in a different fabric”. We really wanted to understand how Jean Paul would think about things and what made his work so special, and then use that Jean Paul energy to create a world that was really right in the middle of JPG and KWNLS.

There were already a lot of crossovers in the way we do things. When we started working with JPG we met the guy who used to hand-cut and do the collage for the prints, he’s still working down in the basement of the atelier. Back in the 80s and 90s you didn’t have a choice – you had to do everything by hand because there was no digital. That’s how we work at KNWLS, too."

- Alexandre Arsenault of KNWLS