Jean Paul Gaultier

Interview with Régine Chopinot about her work with the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier.

Chopinot on Chopinot (2012)

In February 2012, Régine Chopinot agreed to take part in a filmed interview.

Looking back on her thirty-year career, but still firmly rooted in her present work, she gives us an honest insight into her world, with plenty of humour and sensitivity.

In this extract, Régine Chopinot talks about costumes and Pygmalion. She also discusses a tailor, a corset, the weight of fabric, humour and the excessive softness of pink satin…

With extracts from:

LE DÉFILÉ (1985)

Choreography Régine Chopinot ; Performers Alain Buffard, Geoffrey Carey, Régine Chopinot, Herman Diephuis, Poonie Dodson, Pascale Henrot, Éric Larrondo, Vera Motta Buono, Anna Pawlowsky, Michèle Prélonge, Rita Quaglia, Monet Robier, Elaine Rudnicki, Stéphane Sednaoui, Patrice Touron, Tomeo Verges, Frédéric Werlé ; Costume Jean-Paul Gaultier ; Production Compagnie Chopinot-Centre chorégraphique régional de Poitou-Charentes, La Rochelle ; Coproduction Lineapiù, Fuzzi, Cointreau, Alpha Fnac, Public S. A., Swatch, ANPE, MC 93 de Bobigny et Théâtre contemporain de la danse

Performed at the Pavillon Baltard, Nogent-sur-Marne, 27-29 September 1985

WHA-LA CAPTURE (2007)

Concept Régine Chopinot ; Performers John Bateman, Régine Chopinot, Virginie Garcia, Frédéric Werlé, Duke Wilburn, Jean Michel Bruyère ; Scenography and text Jean Michel Bruyère ; A film by Régine Chopinot et Sibylle Stürmer ; Production BARC – CCN La Rochelle. Filmed with 12 video cameras, 3 November 2006, at the Chapelle Fromentin, La Rochelle

Updating: March 2013