5 Designers Who Are Committed to Runway Diversity

Jean Paul Gaultier

Shows:

• Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2014: Coco Rocha Does Grease
• Jean Paul Gaultier Shows His Wild Side for Fall 2013 Haute Couture
• Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2013 Runway Review

From an interview with Dazed Digital, which went up yesterday: 

When I cast models I love to show a variety of women. Beautiful sexy women with curves, ethnic women, androgynous women. I don’t want to have just one specific image of a woman in my shows, I want to present what really exists. And the same for men. I also like to show attitude.

And here’s Gaultier responding (via open letter) to a critic who disparaged one of the designer’s casting decisions:  “I always had girls in my shows from different social strata, treating someone as down-market is cheap.”