Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier works a theme like a last nerve. Today's was clearly big cats...big lady cats, to be precise: lionesses, tigresses, cougars. His Couture collection was a celebration of Woman as Predator. The outfits--and the names that Gaultier gave them--had a man-eating subtext: Pussy Faster was a leopard-spotted biker jacket, Catwoman a dark maîtresse-stern concoction of animalist jacquard and Lurex lace, and Cruella de Ville starred ocelot spots in a coat of feathers artfully "camouflage...