Jean-Paul Goude photographed by Eric Dahan
When it comes to iconic fashion portraiture one man remains the ultimate creative tour de force: Jean-Paul Goude. With a career that spans nearly half a century, the 80-year-old creative is as passionate today about his work as he was as a rising art director for glossy magazines back in the 1970s. The legendary French artist’s work has long been a sensation for its ability to bring to bursting life the never-imagined. Exaggeration, provocation, and manipulation of fashion for fun are Jean-Paul Goude’s axes for creating images that still titillate curious minds of the forever young. For Vogue Arabia’s October issue he reunited with model and muse Farida Khelfa, and the chemistry was nothing short of magical. He we celebrate some of Jean-Paul Goude’s most iconic works:
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