"The light diffracted in a prism is the symbol of the 80's, whereas in the 70's we were talking more about shadow. Here we are splashed with multicoloured rays that drip onto white dinner jackets like vanilla in a whisky and coke." Alain Pacadis, Nightdealing, Libération, 24 octobre 1979.
After May 68, intellectuals and artists, driven by social and political struggles, rediscovered the pleasure of partying. In a few places on the right bank those who doesn’t want to sleep meet up. First at the Club 7 bar, then at the Bains-Douches or in the Palace basement. There, people coming from the worlds of fashion, literature and communication crossed paths : Yves Saint Laurent, always wearing a Caraceni tuxedo, Kenzo Takada or Thierry Mugler exchanged ideas with Rolland Barthes, Aragon and Frédéric Mitterrand .
They are the ones who launched the new dances as well as the new fashions that would be copied by all the designers 6 months later . They chose suits with extravagant lapels that they wore both during the day at work and at night to go clubbing. Schott One Star perfectos mixed with mohair suits and grosgrain cocktail jackets. Snobs, they rejected the mainstream culture of the 70s, dressed retro and bought their Sixties style suits at Anoushka in the Montreuil flea market. These parties, immortalized through the lens of Philippe Morillon and the duo Pierre et Gilles, were published in the magazine Façade.
The initiatory journey is well known:
