 Hello, my name is Thierry Maxim Loreau. Welcome to Brooklyn Museum. I'm the curator of the Jean-Paul Gautier exhibition from the sidewalk to the catwalk. Throughout the exhibition, you'll discover that there's 32 animated mannequins and also you'll see Jean-Paul Gautier who greets you in the exhibition. And yes, it's the real Jean-Paul Gautier. What we did, in fact, is that we work with a Montreal theatre company called HUBU. What happened is that Mr Gautier saw in Avignon at the festival in Avignon a play from HUBU called The Blinds of Mitterlink. And he saw these animated faces and he thought it looked fantastic because it reminded him of a movie that fascinated him when he was a kid called Falbala where at the end, the mannequin becomes alive. So we worked with actors, models who were muses of Mr Gautier. We went through the same process because I was kind of the prototype for it and Mr Gautier went through the same process also of having our head cast in a plaster. So they, in fact, casted from the back to the front of the head and with the cast of the head, what they do is that they film the oval of your face. So when they project the video of your actual face on your actual cast of your head it fits perfectly and it molds your features. So that's why you have this impression that all the mannequins are alive in the exhibition which is fascinating and Gautier loved it. So I hope you'll enjoy the show.