As Jean-Paul Gaultier draws his decades-long career to a close, L'Officiel takes a look back at the designer's different muses over the years, women who embodied the spirit of the house like no other 

Yvette Horner

We owe it to <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Jean-Paul Gaultier</a> for the makeover of the celebrated accordionist Yvette Horner. Muse of his early years, she represented everything that the designer loved - she was out of the ordinary.

Arielle Dombasle

The French actress and singer is a longtime friend of <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a>, having made frequent appearances on his runways.&nbsp;

Madonna

There is perhaps no <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/Culture/madonna-has-always-been-a-fighter">Madonna</a> outfit more iconic than the conical-breasted bustier she wore in 1990. <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a> designed the costumes for her Blond Ambition World Tour, launching himself and the music legend into pop culture history. In a previous interview, the designer even confessed to having asked <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/Culture/madonna-has-always-been-a-fighter">Madonna</a> for her hand in marriage three times.&nbsp;Despite her refusals, the two iconoclasts have remained close friends, with <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a> creating more memorable looks for <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/Culture/madonna-has-always-been-a-fighter">Madonna</a>, including her <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/met-gala-2018-best-dressed-fashion-on-red-carpet-rihanna-lana-del-rey-blake-lively-zendaya-bella-hadid">2018 Met Gala</a> gown.&nbsp;

Rossy de Palma

The Spanish actress has walked in Gaultier&#39;s shows for over 20 years, and even briefly guest-starred in his Fashion Freak Show, a remarkable retrospective on the designer&#39;s wild life. She has also fronted several of his perfume campaigns. We can&#39;t decide which of their many collaborations is the most extreme, but one thing is certain, the duo are inseparable.&nbsp;

Myl&egrave;ne Farmer

Another talented and longtime muse of <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a>, the singer-songwriter rarely makes public appearances, but broke the rules for the designer&#39;s final Haute Couture show just a few days ago.&nbsp;

Farida Khelfa

Born to strict immigrant parents in Lyon, Farida Khelfa fled to Paris at the tender age of 16 to start a new life. It was <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Jean-Paul Gaultier</a> who first featured her in one of his shows, and for many years she has been one of the most emblematic figures of the house. Like Farmer, Khelfa returned to the runway for Gaultier&#39;s last show earlier this week.&nbsp;

Amanda Lear

Singer, lyricist, painter, TV presenter, actress, model, friend of Salvador Dal&iacute;... Amanda Lear&#39;s CV is as multi-dimensional and complex as her character. She seems to have done anything and everything, and can boast of having been, amongst her thousand and one lives, one of the muses of <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Jean-Paul Gaultier</a>. She reignited her modelling career to appear on the designer&#39;s runway in 2012, and is often spotted on his arm as a guest at events.&nbsp;

Tanel Bedrossiantz

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The model&nbsp;has been a constant presence in <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier&#39;</a>s circle since the 1980s, and together the duo have broken many gender boundaries, embracing androgyny and gender fluidity long before such issues became hot topics.&nbsp;

David Bowie

Another icon who greatly embraced androgyny, David Bowie directly inspired this one-legged jumpsuit look in <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a>&#39;s Spring/Summer 2013 collection, and the designer once commented of the star,&nbsp;&quot;He was demonstrating that a man could be powerfully feminine, he didn&#39;t have to aspire to be John Wayne&quot;.&nbsp;

Conchita Wurst

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The 2014 Eurovision winner was recruited by <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a> to close his Fall/Winter 2014 collection, again demonstrating the designer&#39;s fearlessness in pushing boundaries, and since then the pair have attended several AIDS benefits together in support of a mutual cause.&nbsp;

Carla Bruni

The multi-hyphenate and former French first lady has modelled for Gaultier several times, including this show-stopping look for Haute Couture 2002. She is a fixture in his front row, and also interviewed the designer about his career in a documentary on his career.&nbsp;

Dita Von Teese

The burlesque star very well embodies the sensual side to <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-announces-retirement-after-50-years-in-fashion">Gaultier</a>&#39;s creations, appearing on his catwalk for Spring/Summer 2019, and also in his Fashion Freak Show.&nbsp;

From Madonna To Arielle Dombasle, These Are The Muses Of Jean-Paul Gaultier

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