Jean Paul Gaultier remains in the midst of his new couture strategy, which involves the fashion legend welcoming a guest designer to craft his couture creations in his honor. It all came to fruition with the Fall 2021 season and a whole plethora of jaw-dropping collections by Chitose Abe, Glenn Martens, Olivier Rousteing, Haider Ackermann, Julien Dossena and Simone Rocha have since followed.
JPG’s latest catch is Nicolas Di Felice, who Gaultier tapped to design his Fall 2024 couture collection. The Belgian designer is the current creative director of Courrèges, and has been at the helm of the French fashion label since 2020. Prior to landing the top job at Courrèges, Di Felice was on the team of Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga in 2008, after graduating from La Cambre, and remained at Balenciaga under Ghesquière for six years. Following a brief stint at Christian Dior under Raf Simons, Di Felice was reunited with Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton in 2015, where he remained until 2020.
The highly-anticipated Jean Paul Gaultier x Nicolas Di Felice collection is set to be unveiled in June, as part of the Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week Fall 2024 schedule. To say we cannot wait would be an understatement.
Revisit Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring 2024 Haute Couture collection by Simone Rocha:
Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum memebrs:
“Great news! I can’t wait to see Di Felice’s couture collection. His sharp silhouettes will also benefit from that experience. However, it’s so obvious they can’t invite Ghesquiere so they’re going for the people from his studio. I wonder if JPG will invite Natacha Ramsay-Levi at some point?” [perhydrol]
“I like that JPG chooses people who have earned it. It will be very interesting to see Di Felice’s approach. Obviously, he is known for Courrèges but Gaultier is an opportunity for him to express more of his personality.
He is a showman, his shows are very entertaining so I expect a great cast of walkers!” [Lola701]
“Very exciting news! So happy for him. Cannot wait.” [thiago]
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