Jean-Paul Goude: " Goudemalion," A Retrospective

Working as a photographer, graphic designer, illustrator, and advertising film director since the 1960s, Jean-Paul Goude has had a rich and storied career. From the New York of Andy Warhol and mixed cultures, to famous model and singer Grace Jones, his muse of the 70s-80s, from the spectacular Bicentennial Parade in Paris in 1989 to ads for Kodak and Chanel, Goude has been one of the greatest contemporary imaginations and seminal taste makers for over four decades.

Les Arts Decoratifs is presenting the first exhibition in Paris, dedicated to Jean-Paul Goude's work. For this extraordinary event, Goude is proposing a retrospective and creative vision of his oeuvre encompassing all fields of artistic expression, from fashion and photography to advertising and performing arts. His entire forty-year career will be retraced, featuring his drawings, objects, music, photographs and films, including the evocation of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. This journey will be punctuated with the artist's original creations and theatrical installations highlighting ultimate points of his life and work.

Jean-Paul Goude lives and works in Paris, France.

Goudemalion

Portrait of Jean-Paul Goude, 2011

Cry Now, laugh later, New York 1982
©Jean-Paul Goude

Grace Jones, V magazine, Paris 2009
©Jean-Paul Goude

La Blanche (White), Paris 1983
©Jean-Paul Goude

Grace reviewed and corrected, New York 1978
©Jean-Paul Goude

Maternity dress, in collaboration with Antonio Lopez, New York 1980
©Jean-Paul Goude

Bicentenary of the French Revolution, Paris July 14, 1989
URSS: Soviet constructivist 
©Jean-Paul Goude

Galeries Lafayette: L' Homme (Man), collage, Paris 2004
©Jean-Paul Goude

Galeries Lafayette: The Queen of Seoul, Paris 2005
©Jean-Paul Goude

Galeries Lafayette: Mia Frye, Danse avec la mode (Dance with fashion), Paris 2008
©Jean-Paul Goude

Poster for Coco Chanel perfume, 1991
©Jean-Paul Goude

Azzedine and Farida, Paris 1985
©Jean-Paul Goude

Courtesy Museum Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris

Goudemalion. Jean-Paul Goude, a retrospective

November 11, 2011 - March 18, 2012
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Hassan Hajjaj: Spring-Summer collection 2018, a photographic series

Hassan Hajjaj's photographic world draws its power and vitality from his personal history. A child of the 1960s, he grew up in Morocco and went on to discover London and its dazzling art scene. Former music promoter and music video producer, Hajjaj also designed a line of fashion accessories and opened RAP, a  ready-to-wear boutique that became a fashion hub in in the 1980s. He drew on all this experience to create installations and decors full of his fascination with the flamboyant, organized chaos of Arab souks.

Hassan Hajjaj's photographic series whose meticulous mises en scene betray an admiration for Samuel Fosso, Malik Sidibe and David La Chapelle. In these images from Marrakech, he plays on the sophisticated codes of fashion circles and music videos. He succeeded in turning young, heavily veiled and jellaba-clad women into magazine icons and hip-hop stars. The photographs, looking at first glance like Orientalist fantasies, use humor and derision to exploit the ambiguities and contradictions implied by the veil and traditional dress. Kitschy and highly colored, subversive and outlandish, Hassan Hajjaj's images put crucial questions about the way East and West see each other, and about cultural exchange between them.

Hassan Hajjaj has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Morocco, London and the Middle East. In 2009, he was one of the eight finalists in the Victoria & Albert Museum's Jameel Prize for Islamic art. He divides his time between London and Marrakech.

Spring-Summer collection 2018

© Hassan Hajjaj

Courtesy Hassan Hajjaj / Mouna Mekouar

Spring-Summer collection 2018 series is currently on view at Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
September 13 - November 11, 2011

Oooh la la, c'est magnifique! November 13 Marks U.S. debut of Jean Paul Gaultier Multimedia Exhibition

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

This international exhibition devoted to Gaultier's oeuvre marks the Dallas Museum of Art's first foray into the art of contemporary fashion. Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the highly-acclaimed exhibition explores how Gaultier's provocative, innovative, and transformative design aesthetic has paved a new way to both wear and look at fashion. For over 35 years, the enfant terrible of French fashion has commanded the runway with unconventional collections for women and men ranging in subjects from Dada to the Christo Effect, Chic Rabbis to Madonnas, and Tattoos to Trompe l'oeil. Incorporating a host of international cultural references, both high and low, familiar and taboo, Gaultier's vision continues to promote a strong social message that empowers women and men to embrace their sexuality and individuality.

Included among the new exhibition additions premiering in Dallas are a Kokekodo ensemble for men from JPG's Haute Couture F/W 2011-12  Black Swan collection; an American flag coat made from ostrich feathers, leather on tulle created for Kylie Minogue for her first American tour in 2009; and an eye-popping motorcycle suit with headlights costume designed for Pedro Almodovar's 1993 film "Kika." These plus stunning stage outfits worn by Madonna are just a few of the 130 pieces for men and women spanning from 1976 to 2011 on view.

November is also the publication date for the 424-page exhibition catalogue (Abrams for the English edition), which features interviews with Gaultier friends, colleagues, and muses including Madonna, Catherine Deneuve, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Carine Roitfeld, Dita Von Teese, Pedro Almodovar, among others.

In her review of the exhibition for The International Herald Tribune, Suzy Menkes wrote: "In every way, technically, artistically and aesthetically, the exhibition devoted to the iconoclastic French couturier is a triumph."


Describing the importance of hosting the U.S. debut, Kevin W. Tucker, The Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design and coordinating curator of the exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art stated,
"Jean Paul Gaultier's work transcends more restrictive definitions of 'fashion' to command attention as an exploration of his interests in popular culture, notions of exoticism, beauty, and the spectrum of visual and performing arts. He has an omnivorous passion for potential sources of inspiration to create remarkable designs which become transformative and expressive costumes for their wearers."

Jean Paul Gaultier

Les Actrices (Movie Stars) collection, Haute Couture F/W 2009-2010

© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

Mexico collection, "Paloma" gown, Haute Couture S/S 2010
Model: Arielle Dombasle
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

Parisiennes collection, Haute Couture F/W 2010-2011
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

Parisiennes collection, Fishnet tights, Haute Couture F/W 2010-2011
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

 Dita Von Teese, Flaunt, 2003
Dada collection, prêt-a-porter S/S 1983
© Perou

First collection, women's prêt-a-porter S/S 1977
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

Calligraphy collection, Labyrinth gown, Haute Couture S/S 2009
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

Body corset worn by Madonna, Blond Ambition World Tour, 1990
Dazed & Confused, April 2008
© Emil Larsson

Costume worn by Victoria Abril in Kika, directed by Pedro Almodovar, 1993
© Jean-Marie Leroy_El Deseo D.A. S.L.U.

Divine Jacqueline collection, Haute Couture S/S 1999
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

Hommage a l'Afrique (Tribute to Africa collection), La Mariee dress
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

American flag coat created by Gaultier for Kylie Minogue, For Me, For You Tour (KylieUSA2009)
Collection of Kylie Minogue, London © C. Guest Montreal Museum

Black Swan collection, Kokekodo ensemble, Haute Couture F/W 2011-2012
© Patrice Stable / Jean Paul Gaultier

 Catalogue cover, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
Images: Miles Aldridge, Immaculate No. 3, Numero, 2007
Herb Ritts, Jean Paul Gaultier, Tokyo 1990
Graphic Design by Paprika

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk 

On view at the Dallas Museum of Art from November 13, 2011 to February 12, 2012

Following Dallas, the exhibition tour will include:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, March 24-August 19, 2012

Fundacion Mapfre - Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, September 26-November 18, 2012

Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands, February 9-May 12, 2013

Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm, June 17-September 22, 2013

To view The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk previous exhibit at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, click here.

Courtesy Dallas Museum of Art (DMA)
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Gallery of Rococo Portraits: Hip-Hop Star meets 18th-century Courtesans

Powerful female figures have always been a source of inspiration for the 40-year-old Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli. Through film, performance, and images often enhanced with lavish embroidered garments, Vezzoli links contemporary icons to historic representations of women in art. He transformed actress Eva Mendes into Bernini's masterpiece The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa for his Prada Foundation installation this year's Venice Biennale and, for MOCA's 30th anniversary gala in 2009, he remained Lady Gaga as a latter-day Ballets Russes star.
For the November issue of W Magazine, Vezzoli has remade hip-hop star Nicki Minaj (known as Lil Wayne protégée) as an 18th-century courtesan.

Nicki Minaj as Francoise Athenais de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan

in Dior Haute Couture

Nicki Minaj as Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry

in Dior Haute Couture

Nicki Minaj as Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour

in Western Costume Company

Nicki Minaj as Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov

in Vera Wang

Courtesy W Magazine