the one true heir to the throne of french fashion

in response to style.com's tim blanks largely negative review of his couture 2013 show jean paul gaultier took to twitter the following day.  banks ended his review saying, "[he] was once considered the one true heir to the throne of french fashion. but that was once upon a time, and that time has, sad to say, well and truly passed." (read the full review here)

gaultier tweeted the following response:

dear tim:
once upon a time you like my shows "but that time has truly passed" and i respect it. but the tim i knw before would never have made the attacks more personal than professional. i always had girls in my shows from different strata, treating someone as down-market is cheap.
in future, rather than be bored at my shows, you can use that time to do something else, for example brush up on your fashion history so you'll know that "mille feuille de mousseline" didn't echo saint laurent, it was inspired by a nina ricci dress from 1967 in homage to gerard pipard who recently passed away.
if you're nostalgic for the time when i was considered the one true heir to the throne of french fashion please buy a ticket for my exhibition now in stockholm and soon in brooklyn and london. good visit.
a former yours in fashion
jean paul gaultier.

and that's how to do an elegant bitch slap. bravo gaultier.