Invited to represent France at the Dubai World Expo, this exhibition on the work of Jean Paul Gaultier is the 17th in collaboration with Canadian curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot, following The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier and Love is Love. “My clothes are, in a way, the best passport to make my ideas travel”, claimed Jean Paul Gaultier. Beyond the clothes, beyond the sympathetic character with his bleached hair and his contagious laughter, and well beyond the codes that he shook up with humor and sensitivity, the “enfant terrible of French fashion” has proposed a fashion beyond fashion, beyond trends. Over the seasons, he presented creations filled with humanism, tolerance, and universal values, which captured and claimed societal issues the designer has conveyed, collection after collection, for nearly fifty years. The history of fashion is not only written with silhouettes and trendy accessories, but also with real commitment.