MONTREAL.- The partnership between Jean Paul Gaultier and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is continuing. The MMFA announced the opening of Love Is Love: Wedding Bliss For All à la Jean Paul Gaultier, at the Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) in Buenos Aires, with the title Amor es Amor – El matrimonio igualitario según Jean Paul Gaultier. This is the second stop after Montreal for this installation designed by the MMFA, in collaboration with Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, which presents some of the French couturier’s most remarkable wedding fashions for couples, regardless of their gender or orientation.

Presented in Argentina’s capital from March 21 to July 15, 2018, the installation features 35 haute couture and prêt-à-porter wedding gowns and suits created between 1991 and 2017 by this humanist and inclusive couturier. The daring lines and exquisite artistry of these outstanding creations reveal a highly original designer and the virtuosity of his ateliers.

An installation evoking a monumental wedding cake presents wedding apparel for all: heterosexual, homosexual, intercultural and interracial couples celebrate love in diversity and peace. It features male and female mannequins, provided by JoliCoeur International, with faces animated by the Montreal avant-garde theatre company UBU. The exhibition also includes an installation by Dutch designer Jurgen Bey of Studio Makkink & Bey, made with furniture and objects that have been entirely covered in an elastic fabric, like a cocoon.

Love Is Love: Wedding Bliss For All à la Jean Paul Gaultier reflects the ongoing commitment by Jean Paul Gaultier and the MMFA to fight homophobia and promote the expression of differences. Its title is a nod to former president Barack Obama, who said, “love is love” in a speech he gave when gay marriage was legalized by the US Supreme Court on June 26, 2015.

“I’m thrilled that, after Montreal, this exhibition, which celebrates inclusion and diversity through my creations, is being presented in Argentina. In 2010, it became the first country in Latin America to recognize marriage between two people of the same sex,” said the designer Jean Paul Gaultier.

“This is a first for the MMFA! The Museum is exporting an exhibition to South America for the first time. Love Is Love: Wedding Bliss for All à la Jean Paul Gaultier is being presented at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, which opened its doors in 2015. The exhibition, with free admission, brings to Argentina the values of acceptance and tolerance that both the Museum and the couturier hold dear,” said Nathalie Bondil, the MMFA’s Director General and Chief Curator.

“I’m so proud that the Museum has brought Gaultier’s wedding creations to Argentina for the very first international fashion exhibition in that country’s history,” added Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the exhibition’s curator.