JEAN PAUL GAULTIER — VOTE FOR NO. 6 "THE PRISONER" F/W 1991–92

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER — VOTE FOR NO. 6 "THE PRISONER" F/W 1991–92

In Fall/Winter 1991, Jean Paul Gaultier released a series of garments referencing The Prisoner—a cult British television series that first aired in 1967.
At the time, Gaultier was just 15 years old. The show, centered around the character "Number Six"—a British agent kidnapped and detained in a surreal seaside village—left a mark that would later surface in his work.

The Prisoner was a meditation on power, resistance, and the erosion of individual autonomy.
Themes that align naturally with Gaultier’s design ethos: challenging authority, bending societal codes, and using fashion as a form of defiance.

The “Vote for No. 6” design specifically references the fourth episode, Free for All, in which Number Six is coerced into running for election against the very system imprisoning him—a perfect metaphor for Gaultier’s own subversive stance toward establishment fashion.

The visual used for the piece—an image of Gaultier himself—was taken from a 1988 shoot by French photographer and director Jean-Baptiste Mondino, originally featured on the December cover of The Face magazine. Mondino’s longstanding collaborations with artists like Madonna, Björk, and Neneh Cherry mirror the same cultural friction: the line between rebellion and mainstream absorption.

"I like individualism. I don't like being told how to behave." — Jean Paul Gaultier

More than merchandise, this garment stands as a coded statement:
Control is an illusion. Fashion is a weapon.

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