Madame

Clothes do make the man, as freely stated by Bordeaux artist Philippe Jullian, a refined illustrator and collector who found his Oriental-inspired palette in the hues of decadent colours. The body is opaque, with its attire defining, clarifying and affirming it – making it intelligible and thus communicative. With their inexhaustible erotic potential, clothes disguise by dressing, reveal by concealing, attract by covering up. And the characters parade – between reality and fairy-tale, almost as if on a high-fashion runway where illusion often disguises itself as truth – in a contamination with no outlines. And so on with the ever-changing show of extras and acrobats, in the theatre of the divertissement where the signs of a declining society try to reinvent themselves in ever-new stylistic codes.