Jean-Paul Goude
Graphic Designer, Illustrator & Photographer
Jean-Paul Goude, best known as the man who "created" Grace Jones, has been one of the greatest contemporary imaginations and seminal taste makers since the 1970s. Staging models and working with basic tools – literally an exacto blade, paste, and paint – and without computers, he anticipated the current age of Photoshop and made possible a generation of contemporary artists like David LaChapelle, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Anthony Goicolea.
Fresh, fantastic, and fabulous, Jean-Paul Goude is a unique artist for both the 20th and 21st centuries. His theatricality and use of scale and color are fueled by his feverish imagination. Goude’s talent is further distinguished by his appreciation of and love for a line of beautiful women that has ranged from Toukie Smith, Grace Jones, Farida to his Korean-American wife Karen ("The Queen of Seoul"). He lives and works in Paris.