Why 2 Gay Porn Stars Sat Front Row at the Jean Paul Gaultier Show
| 07/07/22
This season's Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week was closed in part by the Jean Paul Gaultier show and the stars turned out. Maluma, Kim Kardashian, and more sat front row at the show with notables like Jeremy O. Harris on the runway. The collection was designed by Balmain's Olivier Rousteing as a tribute to Gaultier. And while it certainly was eye-catching, the show (which started an hour late) got another dash of wow factor from a man who has been known to start quite a bit of chatter because of his looks: Fredrik Robertsson. Here, in an as told to written by Out editor-at-large Mikelle Street, porn performer Robert Royal explains how two gay porn stars wound up on one of the biggest front rows of fashion week.
My friend Florian is longtime friends with Fredrik Robertsson and has been with him to other shows before. The people from Jean Paul Gaultier wanted Fredrik to come to the show with two guys who carried his dress. So I got asked from Florian if I wanted to come and be a part of this performance.
I had been to fashion shows before but I'd never been to a show in Paris. For me, this was also my first haute couture show. The shows I've been to were sort of small and not so opulent so this was really like a lifetime experience. I was actually supposed to still be in Brazil until the end of July and I changed my flights so I could go to the show.
Before I started doing OnlyFans during the pandemic, I was doing makeup and clothing styling. So I'm very close to this sort of stuff because I come from this industry. I was working in magazines and also for TV commercials and all of that.
The days before the show, I was more nervous than the day of. We made such an entrance. You know, two guys completely tattooed carrying the train of his dress. Fredrik is always dressed like a stunner. We were carrying the dress and posing and being a bit naughty when they were taking pictures. Everyone was greeting Fredrik and telling him he had the best entrance and that no one could do it like him. It was pretty cool to being a part of that.
We were sitting front row and like directly on the opposite side from us was Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner and Anna Wintour. On the other side was Maluma -- there were a lot of stars.
I have to be honest: I thought the show was going to be just Jean Paul Gaultier. I wasn't aware that there was a collaboration with Olivier Rousting. So it was really one of the best shows. I've seen many of the shows on the internet, but seeing that in real life was so impressive because like the material used and like all the forms of the dresses and how it was crafted. It was so good. It was more than a fashion, it was like going in a gallery to look at art. You see it on the internet, you see a video but it's 10 times different when it's sitting right in front of you and you can see the stitching. Especially with the materials they use, it was a real special moment for me.
The cast of models was a super nice mix, like very colorful. I have to say so that was really good because it wasn't boring in that way. It wasn't just a bunch of white girls, I have to say. I really enjoyed the variation of people, even with the sizes and shaved heads and all of that.
I'd like to say that Anna Wintour recognized me but, no. Haha. It was funny because like, we were thinking maybe she would think that it's a bit too much or whatever. But afterwards we heard that she was saying Fredrik looked fabulous and I think we were included in that. So I think we were included in that.
Afterwards I got messages on social media from people who spotted me in videos or photos. I started doing OnlyFans because I couldn't work anymore because of the pandemic and then I got my first studio work and then other studios started to call. And then a magazine named me the "Best Penis of 2020" and my photography is being published, so it all feels really good. Now with going to the show ... it feels like I'm Alice in Wonderland and I've fallen down the rabbit hole. I'm really on cloud 9.
I definitely would like to do more in fashion. I did modeling in the past also and I was always already playing with the idea of going back to that because I really like photography. I've taught myself how to do photography and will be published soon so that's nice.
It was interesting that I saw people from Instagram and they were so interested in our tattoos. I'm from a small farm town in Austria but my dad and all of my brothers are completely tattooed but I wasn't really into it. On my 16th birthday mad and presented me with my first tattoo which was on my leg -- but it's totally opposite of my style. 10 years later I got another one. Then when I started porn in 2020 I started getting more as like an art project. I go to one girl who is fantastic and she does them all. I love the way it changes my look. I just got my back and the front of my legs done which was a lot of work and a lot of paint but also pleasure. Now I have to do the back of my legs.
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