Jean Paul Gaultier's conical Madonna bra to be star of the show at Brooklyn Museum

The iconic piece from the singer's 1990 Blonde Ambition tour is just one of a host of 

fashions by the Parisian coutourier on display.

Conical or comical? Madonna's famous bra on the blonde ambition tour in 1990
Coming to the Brooklyn Museum: Madonna’s provocative conical bra that she wore on her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour.
The museum has landed a big show of fashions by Jean Paul Gaultier, the iconic Parisian couturier who turned Madonna into a pointy-bra’d Glamazon.
“He was fashion’s original bad boy,” said curator Lisa Small.
“After three decades and lots of ups and downs, he’s still the baddest boy out there.”
Gaultier’s high-profile exhibition is a good get for the Brooklyn cultural institution which will be the only museum in the Eastern United States to present it.
“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk,” which arrives atthe Eastern Parkway museum next October, features 140 avant-garde garments from his 37-year career.
The museum beat out at least one competitor for the show, which was organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Costumes Gaultier designed for her 2006 Confessions Tour will be on display too.
Madonna’s Blonde Ambition bra and corset contraptions are on everybody’s mind this week.
One of them is being auctioned off Thursday by Christie’s International in London — and is expected to go for as much as $24,000.
His gender-bending designs like skirts for men will be on display along with his very first design, which has never been exhibited.
More than 30 of the mannequins wearing his eye-popping garb are animated — including one with a face molded to look like Gaultier himself that welcomes visitors to the show in English and French.
There’s also a simulated catwalk that moves mannequins around, like in a real-life fashion show.
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