aider Ackermann is jubilant, and it's infectious. Just home from work and dressed in a fresh white T-shirt, his Hollywood-handsome face framed by a boyish new haircut, he is grinning from ear to ear. It's late January and less than a week has passed since the triumphant reveal of his first-ever haute couture collection at Paris Fashion Week, a one-off for the house of Jean Paul Gaultier, and Ackermann's second only runway collection in nearly three years. If you have been following the couture beat, Gaultier stepped down from the brand in 2020 and has entrusted a new designer each season to create a collection. Colombian-born, Paris-based Ackermann, is the fourth and he has cleaned up in the reviews, with calling it, “The
