"The Musée d'Art Moderne Cantini produces Jean Paul Goude's first retrospective".
The creation of the Musée de la Mode was in gestation in 1988, and we decided with Germain Viatte, Director of the Marseilles Museums, to invite a publicist whose work has won international awards: Jean Paul Goude.
The Musée d'Art Moderne Cantini is staging its first retrospective of the work of a prolific, hard-hitting filmmaker.
From his childhood, he keeps the exotic and sometimes ferocious enchantment of the Vincennes zoo, which inspired his most beautiful advertisements, including those for Perrier, Lee Cooper... In love with unusual women, he models them, fragments them, oversizes them, and stages the women of his life, Grace Jones and Farida Kelfa, the muses of numerous couturiers. He says of Farida: "She's the most astonishing person I know, an Arab born in France. Face magazine asked me to describe her. As a joke, I said she was a cross between Ava Gardner and Yasser Arafat. No wonder she's Azzedine Alaïa's muse.
In parallel with the provocatively named French Correction exhibition, Jean Paul prepared the Marseillaise. In 1989, a grand parade on the world's most beautiful avenue, the Champs Elysées, celebrated the bi-centenary of the French Revolution: 12 tableaux vivants! 6000 artists! Jessie Norman and Azzedine Alaïa, President of L'Institut Mode Méditerranée, met for a first fitting in Marseille. Azzedine wrapped the diva in the French flag to close the parade and perform our patriotic anthem.
