Apartment Decorated by Gaultier

Each room embodies a different theme that inspires Gaultier. A nautically-striped jersey fabric is stretched sensually over the first room, which gradually diminishes to a blank white canvas.

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Although the furniture is still evident, the absence of color renders this blanched corner with a phantom-like, three-dimensional surrealist effect.

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"Il s'est glisse sur les murs comme il se love sur les corps...' —the fabric slips off the walls in the same way that it curls around the body.

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Gaultier likens Paris to a jungle in the second room—with an overwhelming amount of ivy, lichen, and other greenery invading all crevices between mirrored structures and furniture.

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According to Gaultier, "My imagination comes from the cinema...I love the idea that nature is capable of trumping concrete."

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Gaultier's third chamber is reminiscent of his classic feminine themes manifested in corset, lace, and powdered pinks sliced with daring accents of black.

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In a 2,700-square-foot apartment previously owned by French architect Jacques Carlu, Gaultier is the third fashion designer given the opportunity to re-envision it. Jacques Carlu was the architect of the Palais de Chaillot in the 1930s, across from the Eiffel Tower, where the <a href="http://www.citechaillot.fr/">Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine</a>, and a slew of other museums now occupy.  Before Gaultier, the apartment had been transformed into a classy white party by Martin Margiela in 2009 and a Baroque wonderland by Christian Lacroix in 2008.

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On the terrace of the apartment, Gaultier lays out a game of reflections with mirrors, "of course, our everyday companions."

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In collaboration with Roche Bobois and French Elle Decoration, Gaultier's showcase of this suite seems like a perfectly timed gateway between two realms of design. Word on the street is that fashion's enfant terrible will be launching a home furnishings line in the near future.

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