Eric Tibusch is a young French man who was born in 1972 in the city of Bonifacio in South Corsica. At the age of 3 he flew to French Polynesia and since that period he spent his childhood either in the Island of Beauty or in Tahiti. He left Polynesia when he was 12. As, he has always been fascinated by design and fashion, he was noticed by Jean Paul Gaultier in 1998 and immediately recruited and given the responsibility for the fashion shows of his famous “Maison de Haute Couture” abroad. As an expert on the programmes about fashion development, he had the ability to manage fur projects with other fashion designers. Aware of his capacity he decided to create his own “Maison de Couture” in July 2006, at the age of 34.

1° Couture Collection 07.06.2006 : “Happiness”
For my first collection, I wished to combine Tahitian smartness with Parisian fashion design. Thus, I pay homage to my Polynesian culture on the one hand and my French one on the other hand and bridge the gap between the paradisiacal archipelago and the urban environment. This theme has allowed me to mix contemporary occidental cuts with exotic materials such as parrot feathers, pearls, mother-of-pearls and horn. I have tried to highlight the Polynesian state of mind within a “Couture” attitude, to invite the audience to a trip of initiatory rituals.

2° Couture Collection 01.23.2007 : “Parisian ladies answer present ….”
That collection is especially dedicated to French smartness, which has always inspired my work and still does. Today, by picking up a few masculine elements from their wardrobes, the Parisian ladies break new ground in fashion and keep on preserving their titles of smartness ambassadors by enhancing their figures with models made purer. If during the last season, the same Parisians found out Polynesia, now they come back to their origins, Paris.

3° Couture Collection 07.05.2007 : “A murder along the Champs Elysées”
In this collection, I wanted to deal with the theme of woman’s emancipation as it may be described in any thriller based on a murder. Consequently, my masculine and feminine blends are this time made lighter to focus on what is essential: dresses inlayed with soft furnishings, slim suits made of Prince de Gales pure linen, with a copper metallic coating. For this collection, I based my range of colours on my new cuts of furs and my choice among the very colourful silks, for which I preferred blood red and black. I also gave many of my cuts a shape very close to the body and called them like “indictment …..” Every time a top model went by, she played her own part and so did the bride in a black lace sheath dress called “Mantilla”.

4° Couture Collection 01.24.2008 : “zero-tic”
Throughout my work I have sought to portray the emancipation of women in our millennium “Zero-tic” is a ‘pure couture’ collection suited towards a resolutely contemporary clientele… this is my reinterpretation of the woman of today. The trend on display is centred around eroticism, sensuality, seduction and love. The face masks made of glass are reflections of the multiple personalities that reside in each of us. The combination of hair and make-up alongside the couture was original and provided a new light of portraying the emancipation of women.

5° Couture Collection 07.02.2008 : “anti-chambre”
She is a voyager who finds herself today in Capetown, tomorrow at Palm Beach, the following day in New York. A real globetrotter who meets itself in its “anti-chambre" and who at the whim of her fantasies combines her exotic fantasies with her own French sense. A determinedly emancipated woman.

6° Couture Collection 01.27.2009 : “Bonnie and Clyde”
Eric Tibusch invites us to discover his new Spring-Summer 2009 Couture collection through which he reinterprets the Bonnie and Clyde myth in a metaphorical way. Eric believes that the modern Woman has at the same time both a part of Bonnie and a part of Clyde in herself, and thus proposes us a new wardrobe in which one can find touches of feminine-masculine. The result of this couture hold-up: a new way of approaching the woman’s suit, new volumes, evening dresses or cocktail dresses, declined in linens and linen muslins, organza and even leather while borrowing the codes of the masculine wardrobe to reinterpret them in a resolutely feminine way : Prince of Wales checks, tennis stripes, collars and sleeves of men shirts, ties and cardigans and even plays of lacings and of patchworks. And as if it was not enough, Eric underlines the beauty of this woman of the summer 2009, real fashion gangster, by head fineries which draw their inspiration from men’s belts, kinds of leather harness, expressing that way the style of a rock and contemporary Amazon.

7° Couture Collection 07.07.2009 : “Evolution”
For the 2009/10 Fall Winter, Eric Tibusch Paris invites us to a Couture journey through out different styles and convenes mythical and diverse figures such as Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie and Michael Jackson. Highly inspired by the music this season, even before the news caught us back, Eric Tibusch signs a new collection with a rock’ n roll spirit, celebrating a Couture woman, resolutely poisonous. The new Eric Tibusch Paris wardrobe for the coming winter is again based on the masculine-feminine style but in a renewed way: the volumes passes themselves and the collars are emphasized, twisted, and often asymmetric and XXL, while the waist is ultra tight ... Eric Tibusch upsets codes, sometimes with provocation, for a rich collection, even exuberant and sexy, which mixes silk, furs, laces, guipures, with completely new embroideries. Eric Tibusch therefore draws for this season some bold silhouettes for a look of “rock fatal” heroin.

8° Couture Collection 26.01.2010 : "Orbital"
For the 2010 Spring-Summer, Eric Tibusch Paris fashion house invites us to discover a couture collection with an architectural dimension, which key words are volumes and Space: volumes in space and Space as source of inspiration.
Effectively, Eric Tibusch, inspired by the cinematographic universe of Stanley Kubrick and science fiction, plunges us this season into a refined and futuristic galaxy while play more than ever with volumes and proportions.
He convenes a couture astronaut lady that would have been entrusted by the NASA with a mission on Saturn and would have come back from there like dressed with its rings…
The widths across the shoulders spread, XXL, the ellipses mark the collection while clever plays of bands or pleated millefeuille adorn the silhouettes.
Burned wood embroideries echo real flowers embroideries, mixed with metallic linen, gold lace devoured by acid, Moroccan crêpe or again silk.
Eric Tibusch Paris proposes thus a new collection that resolutely looks forward to the future.
The soundtrack for the Eric Tibusch Paris Spring-Summer 2010 Couture collection was conceptualized by Nicole Slack Jones, an International recording artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Known most for her influences in gospel, soul & funk.

9° Couture Collection 06.07.10 : "Legend"
A date that Eric Tibusch has decided to place under the sign of show time , and inspired by some mythic legends universes or some more contemporary or urban ones, in order to dress a couture woman, almost mutant, claiming her animal side.
Indeed, he will propose a Couture and complete wardrobe looking forward to the future with fantastic notes, inspired by Tim Burton’s movies spirit but also meeting myths such as Poseidon’s or the Minotaur’s and many others.
One will discover the new Eric Tibusch's contemporary amazons, like a real battalion of asserted and conquering women that the designer dresses with a very sophisticated couture wardrobe : a profusion of suits and day dresses, cocktail dresses, explosive evening dresses, and even bikini-suits…
For the very first time, it won’t be Fashion meeting Art, but Art becoming Fashion, though Eric, starting from a contemporary painting signed by Alexandra Mas which he has cutted, will introduce the first Couture painting-dress.
Many silhouettes will be underlined by tights painted by this artist and embellished with skeleton bones.
The human body is by the way showed all across the collection via the skeleton, in a kind of new Couture architecture…
The volumes play, Eric Tibusch Paris house signature, is again exacerbated to elongate the body shape : the sleeves are “fluted”, the legs escape from skirts, dresses and jackets become vertical flaky foldings and sometimes twisted around the body. The wearing way of the jackets is sometimes inverted too, as Eric likes “decoding” codes. The shoulders evoke armors of Couture warriors…
Eric Tibusch matches luxurious and worked Solstiss laces, technical linen, silk, muslin, organza, taffeta, quilted leather, alos mixed with fox furs, feathers, alligator tails, or crocodile shells.
The result is absolutely Couture with many tribal and futuristic touches but nothing ethnic.
Likely for the first time, Eric Tibusch Paris house will introduce 4 designs of bags, made in accordance with the rules of Couture, handmade, in single copies, made of bull, calf, goat, suede leathers.
Every client shall have her own, one and unique, with personalized details.

The soundtrack of the fashion show is produced by the American artist Nicole Slack Jones, of course singer, but also actress, who acted with Beyoncé Knowles in the movie “The Fighting Temptations”.

Smartness and inventiveness remain Eric Tibusch interpretation on Parisian chic. This is a universe in which noble materials are mixed together and used with a sense of comfort and modernity. Because people can easily travel all over the world nowadays, mentality and lifestyles have considerably changed. The result is that for any collection, seasons are no longer topical and customers who travel a lot have to change their habits and wardrobes. Particularly respectful of the traditions and techniques of the “French Haute Couture”, Eric Tibusch is really convinced that a modern and affordable couture does exist which he qualifies as “young couture”. According to him and on no account it must ever lose its sense but on the contrary it has to turn the rules upside down by reducing the number of fittings and delivering the orders in the three following weeks. In short as he says, “by a more contemporary language able to adapt itself to the new century and to last forever”.