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In Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring/Summer 1996  Cyberbaba collection, the designer fused high-tech futurism with earthy sensuality, creating garments that blurred the boundaries between skin, surface, and identity. Among its most striking looks is a classic woman’s tailored suit — crisp jacket and pants — that, on closer inspection, reveals a printed illusion: the muscular torso of a man, rendered in red, mapped directly onto the fabric. Known as the  Cyber Muscle Suit, was recently spotted as part of  Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis at the Museum at FIT, where it stands as a provocative study in how fashion visualizes the unconscious. Continue reading Eye On Design: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Cyber Muscle Suit →