Jean-Paul Gaultier to launch lingerie line

Jean-Paul Gaultier is launching a lingerie line. The French designer - famed for developing Madonna's Conical bra for her 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour - has developed a "provocative" lingerie collection Italian brand La Perla.

He told Wedding Style magazine the collaboration "was bound to happen", adding: "Lingerie is part of my DNA: I have always used it in my collections. With La Perla, I have found a perfect partner."

The designer added the collection will continue to enforce his strong view of female empowerment. He added: "I would like to give women freedom to be who they are. I personally think women are the stronger sex; that they are more intelligent and much stronger than us men, and I always wanted to show a strong woman who seduces because she wants to."

Jean-Paul also recently opened retrospective of his work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada, where he admitted he made his first designs of his iconic bra for his stuffed toys. He said: "I made my first cone-shaped bra out of newsprint for my teddy bear Nana. I was always alone, doing my own story. It was my world, one in which I was very happy, dressing my teddy bear."

Jean-Paul's underwear collection will be sold at La Perla and Jean-Paul Gaultier boutiques across the world

Debbie Gibson ready to relive the '80s

Debbie Gibson says the idea of her upcoming tour with fellow 1980s teen queen Tiffany came from a surprising show of support at a recent appearance in New York.

Gibson, 40, said she was surprised at the buzz from folks who were still fans of their heyday more than 20 years ago.

"We did a little promo appearance at the Canal Room in New York City and people just went nuts seeing us together, so we were like, 'Hmmm,'" Gibson told Parade magazine.

Gibson said she and Tiffany had previously kicked around the idea of a nostalgia tour. The idea has now taken concrete form in the "Journey Through the '80s" national tour, which will include duets and solo performances.

"I'm doing all my hits and also a big medley of my favorite 80s songs that influenced me," Gibson said. "I'm also doing a medley of my theater songs.

"When Tiffany and I were putting the show together, we were talking about how our influences are so different," Gibson said. "Hers are rock and country; mine are singer-songwriters and real pop people and theater."