Spring 2025 haute Couture: Julien Fournie's First Circus

“Reaching the age of 50, I am now feeling completely free to reveal what has always been with me: enthusiasm, dreaming, dancing, partying... In short,everything that has driven me and set me in motion since childhood. In the house that bears my name and which I have founded 16 years ago, I don't really design and make fashion pieces, I create characters. Where do I find the inspiration to do this? In movies, in cartoons, in music fromthe 1990s.

“When, as a young teenager I had become a prey to violence and harassment because of my differences, my bedroom had become my shelter. it was populated with fantastic figures: small statues of superheroes, mangas, princesses…, These characters have all grown up with me, They have accompanied me in all my battles and they are still populating my imagination and the shelves of my creative studio. Today, I am putting them on stage at Théâtre Mogador in Paris, to reveal them in full light because they have always acted as protective talismans for me.” - Julien Fournié, The Dancing Couturier