Jean-Paul Goude (born in 1940) is a french graphist, illlustrator, photographer and advertising movie maker.
After chilhood at Saint-Mandé (France), in 1964, he started as an illustrator for the “Printemps” dep. stores, was the pigmalion of Zouzou, then in1970 became art director for the magazine “Esquire” for ten years.“I was an illustrator, who illustrated the fantasies of others, I became naturally a creator of images” he said. At the time he was working for New-York Magazine, he directed Grace Jones ( she became his egery and the mother of his son). In 1983, he published his autobiography entitled “jungle fever” and directed the movie “el flamenco” using the concept “shake me” invented in 1972 by Georges Petit and designed the new visual graphic design for Kodak: “sprites escaping from a slide”. Since 2001, he is art director of Galeries Lafayettes advertising campaign, about which he sayed:”I wanted to go against the general trend, everything one could see at this time”. One after one he made posters full of happiness and freshness like a serial in which Laetitia Casta, plays all the roles as an heroine (the bride, SantaClaus or the dandy).
In 2005, he published “Tout Goude” with a DVD at Editions Lamartinière.
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