Jean-Paul Gaultier chooses Ludovic de Saint-Sernin as his next guest designer

Jean-Paul Gaultier has named Ludovic de Saint-Sernin as the next guest designer for the house’s innovative series of one-off haute couture collections created by fashion designers. The house announced the news on Monday morning, the opening day of the Paris ready-to-wear season.

Ludovic de Saint-Sernin succeeds Nicolas Di Felice, who presented the last guest Haute Couture collection for the House of Gaultier on June 27. De Saint Sernin will present this show in January, during the next Haute Couture season, with garments for Spring/Summer 2025.

This unique series of collaborative couture collections, which debuted in July 2021, began with Sacai's Chitose Abe, who has since been followed by Glenn Martens, Olivier Rousteing, Haider Ackermann, Simone Rocha and Di Felice.

Like Jean-Paul, Ludovic is considered a talented, transgressive creator, who is not afraid to push the boundaries in terms of design.

De Saint Sernin, 32, was born in Brussels and grew up in France. A graduate in fashion design from the École Duperré in Paris, he was shortlisted for the LVMH Prize in 2018 and won the ANDAM Creative Brand Award that same year. He worked at Saint Laurent and then Balmain, and in 2017 launched his own menswear label, to which he later added womenswear. He was also briefly the designer for Anne Demeulemeester.

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Ludovic is also not afraid to venture abroad. In January, he exhibited in a giant loft in New York, inspired by the art and photography of Robert Mapplethorpe.

De Saint Sernin teamed up with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to incorporate images of its flowers and fauna into technical organza tops and ultra-sexy semi-sheer cocktail dresses. She paired the floaty, suggestive tops with pencil pants and skirts. Several of her models wore bras and pants topped with sheer skirts overlaid with tulips. They were all electrifyingly sexy.