"Sidaction particularly touches me": Jean Paul Gaultier confides in his past in "50'inside"

Accompanied by a red ribbon on his chest in support of Sidaction, Jean-Paul Gaultier lent himself to the game of “questions / answers” ​​introduced by Nikos Aliagas in the portrait of the week of the show “50’inside broadcast on TF1.

While the couturier bowed out on January 22, 2020, just a few weeks before the Covid-19 epidemic, he does not regret his decision to leave Haute-Couture.

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And yet, the 70-year-old man continues to be present on the artistic scene with his show combining song, fashion and dance:

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,” he says, smiling at Nikos Aliagas.

But this is not the only love that the couturier has known.

He found in the businessman Francis Menuge an unwavering support.

However, this fifteen-year relationship that prompted the designer to launch his own brand will suddenly end.

The man died in September 1990 of the AIDS virus.

, he remembers painfully.