Jean Paul Gaultier, the master of French design, the head of Hermès' golden age, and the old naughty boy of fashion.
It was he who designed Madonna's pointed cone corset with a hint of teasing and a little rebellion
It was he who created the stage style of "From Angel to Devil" for his brother Zhang Guorong;
It was he who turned the poker face runway into one sitcom after another;
It was he who doubled Hermès' stock price...
However, the fashion master has recently run into trouble and was sued by The Uffizi Galleries, Italy's most popular museum in Florence.
The thing is sauce purple droplets.
In April, the Gaultier brand launched a collection of ready-to-wear capsules called "Le Musée" to pay homage to the art world.
There are many ready-to-wear in this collection, including dresses, tops, pants and scarves, and the way of paying tribute is also slightly rough:
Printed with Botticelli's iconic Renaissance paintings
Writing this, we must talk about Botticelli's infatuated boy.
Botticelli's full name was Sandro Botticelli, the last master of the Italian 15th-century Florentine School, well, the world-famous kind
He was the most important painter of the Medici family at that time, and the painter was very good, but he was extremely obsessed, and there was always a girl in his heart, Simonetta.
Of course, the girl who can make the great painter so impressed is not an ordinary person, but she is a beautiful woman who has made the whole of Florence fall for it.
However, when Botticelli met the girl, the girl was already married, and she had a red face and a short life, and she died of illness at the age of 23.
Soon the world forgot about her, and only Botticelli remembered her life, and from then on, the heroine of all Botticelli's paintings was her.
For example, one of the symbols of Italy, the C Venus in "Spring", is Simone Nesta in Botticelli's heart
(Review post: The world-famous great painter is an infatuated boy!) For the sake of the beautiful person never married, the painting is full of her... ）
Another example is the painting used by Gaultier on his clothes, also from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, standing in a shell
The painting is also very famous, depicting the goddess Venus arriving on the coast after birth, floating on the surface of the water above the shell, with long hair wrapped around the body; At the same time, the wind god, accompanied by another woman, opened his wings above Venus and circled towards her.
Probably by this painting to the beauty, Gaultier this series of clothes to cut this painting screenshot, selected Venus headshot, printed on the vest and pants, the mood is a little less, but the Renaissance atmosphere immediately came out
However, before he did this, he forgot to say hello to the Uffizi Gallery where the painting was stored.
In this way, the Uffizi Gallery, which is perfectly ignored, is not very happy:
What the? Our position in Italy is equivalent to the Louvre to Paris, is that what you want to ignore?
So when the series first appeared, they wrote a letter to Gautier's eponymous brand company:
Dear, your new clothing collection, which debuted this spring, features Botticelli's Birth of Venus, painted in 1485. According to the Code of Cultural Heritage, the use of images under Italian public property must be specifically authorized and paid for a fee.
Either you stop selling this product line or talk to us to reach an agreement to pay the museum for the use of these images.
However, this letter was sent out like a stone sinking into the sea, and months passed without any news.
The Uffizi Gallery, which originally planned to cooperate with you and me, could not bear it any longer, nor did he want to put up with it, and directly issued an official statement:
Gaultier, a prominent French fashion company, used immortal masterpieces preserved in the Uffizi Gallery without permission and without payment to create a series of costumes and promote them on its website and social media channels.
In the face of this illegal act, the museum has now begun to take legal action against it and claim financial compensation.
Whether the lawsuit will be won or not I don't know, but at this time I still silently sweated for the Gaultier brand, because this series not only selected "The Birth of Venus", but also "Three Beautiful Gods" created by Peter Paul Rubens in 1635 in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Hey, this year, copyright awareness still has to be had...
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Ref：
https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/jean-paul-gaultier-uffizi-gallery-florence-botticelli-venus-legal-1235383521/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11302249/Jean-Paul-Gaultier-faces-legal-action-use-Botticelli-work.html
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