Ad of the Day | Jean-Paul Gaultier and Colors Go on a Cinematic Journey Aboard the "Train of Scandal"

Apr. 24, 2025

Production house Colors, and director Olivier Hadlee Pearch, have created a film for Jean-Paul Gaultier's Scandal fragrances - a whirlwind of surreal elegance, part fashion, part moving art exhibit, and entirely off the rails.

Within seconds, the viewer is swept into a surge of kinetic energy. This isn’t your standard commercial - it’s a sensory crossing, a moving exhibition, a visual free zone where anything goes. The Scandal train takes viewers on an odyssey where extravagance reigns, and everyone is as unique as the next.

A bold, liberated casting

No rules. The film brings together a constellation of clashing identities - eclectic, magnetic, and fearless.

With offbeat scenes, surreal situations, bold contrasts, bodies, gazes, and energies captured like artworks in motion. The train is a gallery. The film, a manifesto. It's Oliver Hadlee Pearch’s DNA taken to the extreme for the Haute Couture brand that is Jean Paul Gaultier.

Oliver Hadlee Pearch is not only a fashion photographer but also a director. His films, full of character and energy, tell a story through luxurious imagery. Whether street-casting newcomers or top models, his work celebrates authenticity and personality. His subjects are his main inspiration - and that’s precisely why JPG and COLORS chose him to create this one-of-a-kind film.

Oliver Hadlee Pearch is a fashion photographer and filmmaker, but first and foremost a storyteller. The resulting images are built upon character, energy and classicism. No matter the subject of his image, authenticity and innovation are at the core of the worlds and dreamscapes he creates in the real. His work has featured in publications such as Double, i-D, The Gentlewoman, Arena Homme +, Vogue and M Le Monde. Commercial clients include Chanel, Chloe, Hermes and AMI among others.