1. Jean-Paul Goude was born on in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis 8 December 1938 and is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, advertising film director and event designer.
19 Facts About Jean-Paul Goude
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Jean-Paul Goude worked as art director at Esquire magazine in New York City during the 1970s, and choreographed the 1989 Bicentennial Parade in Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
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Jean-Paul Goude was born on 8 December 1938 to an American ballet dancer, and a French elevator repairman, and grew up in the Paris suburb of Saint-Mande.
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Jean-Paul Goude's mother exposed him to different forms of print media.
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Several months later, Jean-Paul Goude was asked to become the magazine's full-time art editor, despite having limited experience working with layouts.
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Jean-Paul Goude worked closely with model-turned-pop-singer Grace Jones, consulting on her image, choreographing her live stage performances, directing her music videos, and creating her album covers.
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Jean-Paul Goude used retouching before computer manipulation to depict Jones in an impossible pose for her Island Life album.
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Jean-Paul Goude was known for creating exaggerated and manipulated forms using collage and post-production tactics and the book shows the progression of several works from sketch to finished work.
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In "Island Life," a photo which he created for cover for Grace Jones's album of the same name, Jean-Paul Goude photographed her in several different positions, then overlaid the images to elongate the neck, and legs, and to display her torso completely turned forward.
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In 2014, Jean-Paul Goude photographed Kim Kardashian for Paper magazine, which used the caption break the internet on the cover of the edition which featured the photos.
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Jean-Paul Goude's first television advertisement was a TV spot for Lee Cooper Jeans in 1983.
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Jean-Paul Goude has created advertisements for clients such as Azzedine Alaia, Perrier, and Cacharel.
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In 1984, Jean-Paul Goude shot a spot for Kodak that followed the adventures of the Kodakettes, mischievous kids clad in red-and-white stripes.
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Jean-Paul Goude has created print campaigns for the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette.
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Jean-Paul Goude has worked with the company for more than 10 years, and has been given considerable creative freedom.
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In June 2019, Jean-Paul Goude acquired the Villa Zilveli in Paris, a modernist house from the 1930s that had fallen into disrepair, with the intention of restoring it.
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The villa was demolished in the summer of 2022, but in 2024, at the age of 85, Jean-Paul Goude ultimately abandoned the idea of rebuilding it.
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Jean-Paul Goude dated several of these muses, including Farida Khelfa, and, most notably, Grace Jones.
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Jean-Paul Goude has a son was born on 1979 and with Grace Jones.