also known as Fashion Santa, Canadian, 60. Paul has a thriving modelling career since the young age. He donates a part his modelling income to a children’s heart surgery program.
I evoked before how Père Noël's incarnations varied between a "drab" version in brown or dark clothes ; and a more colorful one of varying colors. But this isn't just something specific to France.
Today all the incarnations of the Christmas "gift-giver" are associated with the color red, thanks to the mass-spreading of the American Santa Claus, who himself became exclusively associated with red thanks to the Coca-Cola advertisement campaign that solidified the modern appearance of Santa in people's minds.
However, before this Coca-Cola Santa appeared - before the American Santa even existed - the figure of "Father Christmas" wore numerous cloaks and coats of varying colors, a tradition that is still maintained today in Europe. Be it in France, in England or in Germany, the Father Christmas of the 19th century usually wore green or blue - but other colors were possible. You've got brown, purple and white ones...
And the immense variety of colors is perfectly reflected by this collection of chromos of the end of the 19th century which shows the same Father Christmas/Père Noël with coats of various colors:
I saved this image as "girl who knows what she wants" only to find that that's almost exactly what the newspaper labelled her letter the following year.
(source: The Harrisburg Telegram, December 18, 1903 & December 9, 1904.)