[1] Bhatti immigrated to France in 1976, where he married a French woman and established himself as a fashion designer.
However, he found employment in a retail store, first as a cleaner, then as a packer, before becoming a salesman.
[4] His multi-national company, Bhatti, is located in ten countries and achieves an annual turnover of more than twenty million euros.
(1997), which would later be followed by other films in the series (released in 2001 and in 2012), was based on the life of Bhatti, especially his beginnings.
[7] Du Paris au Sentier (1999), his autobiography in French that he co-wrote with journalist Alexie Lorca, as of 2020 it had been translated into Urdu as Paris Mein Doosra Janam: Aalami Shohratyafta Fashion Designer Mehmood Bhatti Ki Aap Beeti.