Jean Paul Gaultier Faucets Courrèges’ Nicolas Di Felice as Visitor Couturier

Nicolas Di Felice, artistic director of Parisian style home Courrèges since 2020, will visitor design Jean Paul Gaultier’s subsequent high fashion present.

The present slated for June will likely be Di Felice’s first couture outing. The designer beforehand labored behind-the-scenes below Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton and Balenciaga and for Raf Simons at Dior.

Puig-owned Jean-Paul Gaultier shuttered its ready-to-wear line in 2014 after years of losses, permitting its founder to deal with image-making high fashion reveals that create buzz for its core fragrance enterprise.

Since Jean-Paul Gaultier stepped again from designing these reveals in 2020, the model has leaned on a visitor designer program that’s seen Sacai’s Chitose Abe, Y/Venture’s Glenn Martens, Simone Rocha, Haider Ackermann and Olivier Rousteing create collections for the home.

Lately, Jean Paul Gaultier has additionally dipped a toe again into ready-to-wear with drops impressed by its couture reveals (an anatomical-printed assortment co-signed by Martens was a specific success), collaborations with manufacturers like London-based KNWLS and capsules of reissued archival appears.

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