About the Author

Thierry-Maxime Loriot is a Canadian writer, curator, and creative director who has overseen the curation of more than seventeen exhibitions on Jean Paul Gaultier all over the world, including in London, Paris, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Munich, and his hometown of Montreal. The various renditions of the globally acclaimed touring exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk were followed by his exhibition Love is Love: Wedding Bliss for All à la Jean Paul Gaultier, and Jean Paul Gaultier from A to Z for the France Pavilion at the Dubai World Exhibition in 2022. Additionally, he has curated touring exhibitions on Thierry Mugler and Viktor&Rolf, and directed and authored many books on art and on fashion, including Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography, Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists, Thierry Mugler Couturissime, Portraits and Fashion - Quebec Photographers Beyond Borders, David & Sybil Yurman Artists and Jewelers, Philipp Furhofer (Dis)Illusions, Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Statements and creative director of album covers and tour books for popstars Mika and Madonna. To date, his exhibitions have gathered more than six million visitors. Robin Muir is a British photographic historian, exhibition arranger, and external curator for the National Portrait Gallery, London. Formerly a picture editor for Vogue, he currently serves as a contributing editor with Vogue and as a consultant on its archive of photographs and drawings. He has curated major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven. He has written many books about fashion photography and social history.

Trino Verkade is the director of the Sarabande Foundation. She worked closely with Alexander McQueen from the beginning, through the growth of his business from a small creative workshop to the multinational luxury brand he left behind at the time of his passing. She oversaw and managed Savage Beauty, a retrospective of Alexander McQueen's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2011).

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