As we announced two weeks ago here, the fashion illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme is the hand behind our very first ad campaign for the new “Kitsuné fall-winter 2010 collection” (in store now). We couldn’t help taking this oppoturtiny to ask him some indiscreet questions…

Hello, my name is Jean-Philippe Delhomme. I am an illustrator and a writer.
I’ am 51 years-old. I was born in Nanterre, and my hometown is Paris but now I live in Paris but I have a studio in NY and spend my holidays in a Greek Island.

Someday, I would like to paint portraits and nudes only, but for now, I spend my days doing many other things, drawing and writing for magazines, advertising, and for my own books and blog .
If I was a young band in a little town of Ireland and trying to seduce Gildas in being featured in a Kitsuné Compilation, I would call my band Experienced Outsiders and my first track would be called Girls are no romantics and to seduce Masaya I would dress only in workwear made with traditional fabrics from a remote japanese mountain village.

I first met Gildas on the phone, then he came to visit my studio in NY, and then we met again with Masaya, a few months later, for lunch at Pastis.
The last time I saw them was at the Paris office, only Gildas was there. We went for lunch in an organic restaurant and I asked him how it’s like to be a DJ on tour.

If Kitsuné asked me to do a compilation, my top 5 songs would be…
“I Never Said I Was Deep” by Jarvis Cocker
“Loosing My Edge” by LCD Sound System
“Perfection as a hipster” by God Help The Girl
“True Love leaves No Trace” by Leonard Cohen
“New York Eyes” by Nicole

My favorite writer is Tom Wolfe, or Proust, or…
My favorite holiday destination is a place where I can work, by the sea, or in the country side, with no tourists around.
The biggest crowd I have ever seen in front of me for a performance was (how many people? ) something around 50 people (that’s why I asked Gildas about playing with crowds in Singapore)
My favorite Catherine Deneuve movie is Rois et Reines, de Arnaud Desplechin, in which she plays a psychiatrist
The most horrible Madonna songs is...Like a Virgin (but it’s the only one that I was ever able to recognized)
When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming some kind of intellectual.
The best thing of capitalism is there’s more choice.
The addiction I should quit is …I don’t really have addiction
My house looks like…a tree house
My current project is…my blog the “Unknown Hipster”
I spent yesterday night looking on plane tickets for NY

photo : courtesy of Garance Doré