Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier to wind up ready-to-wear fashion

Jean-Paul Gaultier with Austrian singer and Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst, who is wearing one of the designer's creation, at the Paris Fashion Week in July. -- EPA

The final collection will be shown at the Paris Fashion Week next week.

Jean Paul Gaultier, showman of Paris fashion, is to bow out of ready-to-wear later this month after nearly 40 years of over-the-top, sometimes provocative collections.