A fashion designer's collaboration with cinema: The reflection of Jean Paul Gaultier's desing approach on film costumes

This study aims to reveal the collaboration of fashion designers with cinema through costumes and especially Jean Paul Gaultier's design approach reflected in films. In this context, it has been tried to show how Gaultier's iconic design features are reflected in the costumes of the movie characters. Costume design; comes to the forefront as one of the factors that affect the narrative features of films such as make-up, decor, light, and space. Costume, which gives visual information about the gender, age, psychology, status, profession and period of the characters in the movies, has a very important place in the movie narrative. While creating an original and aesthetic language of expression, the fact that directors are influenced by art movements and make joint projects with artists stand out as their common features with fashion designers. The most important feature that distinguishes fashion designers' collaboration with cinema from costume designers is that they reflect their own fashion to their costume designs. Gaultier creates comprehensive futuristic designs inspired by French street fashion, gender mix, unisex, rebellion and fun. It is remarkable that Gaultier reflects the design features of elements such as clothes, make-up, hair design and accessories seen in his collections to his costume designs. In particular, the "conical corset" and "striped sailor sweater", which have become iconic in his collections, have come to the fore forward in films. Keywords: Fashion Designer, Art, Costume Design, Cinema.