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MIXT(E) magazine YSL beauty party
Mixt(e) magazine with YSL beauty party with Théodore, Paul and Gabriel band at Le Yoyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
photo & video by Pascal Gillet

Veronique Leroy fall winter 2014 women show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

Yiqing Yin Couture Show, Spring /Summer 2014 at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photos by Pascal Gillet

Veronique Leroy show, spring summer 2014, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

Panda Electric Garden private concert at the Palais de Tokyo, during Au bonheur Des Dames party.

Photo & video by Pascal Gillet

Micky Green private concert at Palais de Tokyo during Au Bonheur Des Dames party for the 10th years anniversary.

Photos and video by Pascal Gillet

Au Bonheur Des Dames has celebrated yesterday its 10th anniversary. At this occasion was set a special party with special guests such Micky Green and other bands in this huge place underneath Palais de Tokyo where the entrance was in by a secrete door! Here some picture of the athmosphere at the entrance!

photo by Pascal Gillet

Alexandre Vauthier, FW 2013/14 Haute Couture show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

“ELLE A, PAR UNE SORTE DE MIRACLE, OPÉRÉ DANS LA MODE SUIVANT LES RÈGLES QUI SEMBLAIENT NE VALOIR QUE POUR LES PEINTRES, LES MUSICIENS, LES POÈTES. ELLE IMPOSAIT DE L’INVISIBLE; ELLE IMPOSAIT AU TAPAGE MONDAIN LA NOBLESSE D’UN SILENCE.”
Jean Cocteau, le retour de mademoiselle Chanel, Le nouveau Fémina, N°1, Mars 1954.

Photo report by Pascal Gillet

N°5 CULTURE CHANEL
Palais de tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
From 5th May to 5th June 2013

Centred on the longstanding ties between CHANEL and the arts, N°5 CULTURE CHANEL, imagined by Jean-Louis Froment, reveals the artistic, timeless and iconic essence of the fragrance CHANEL N°5. Built on a subtle interchange of correspondence, this exhibition elucidates CHANEL N°5 and showcases the connections it has to its era and its avant-garde movements. The works of art, photographs, archives, books and diverse objects featured in the exhibition expose some of the multiple inspirations that fuelled the universe and imagination of Mademoiselle Chanel: whether it be her favourite places or creations of her artist, poet and musician friends such as Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Picabia and Pierre Reverdy. N°5 CULTURE CHANEL reveals a new vision, both intimate and diffuse of the birth of this unique fragrance.

Gardens always go hand in hand with perfume, and so a garden fittingly provides the introductory setting to this exhibition. This novel garden concept is a poetic evocation of N°5, seen through the eyes of Piet Oudolf who here signs his first project in France. A leading figure in the New Perennial movement, Piet Oudolf’s projects are characterized by their strong pictorial relationship to a garden’s composition and layout. Compositions which play largely on the colors and heights of each species selected, express the particular vision of natural planting which underlies all his creations and in particular, his recent projects including the High Line in New York and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.The walk through the garden leads visitors onward to the exhibition entrance. The garden has been created with the support of CHANEL and will be on display throughout the remainder of 2013.

Report to be continued with the best moment of the exhibition… very soon!
Photo by Pascal Gillet

PALAIS DE TOKYO
13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
From 5th May to 5th June 2013

The public, accompanied by designer Mademoiselle Maurice is invited to write a personal message and adapt the famous Post-it ® notes and reinvest in achievement-collective performance . This event set at the Palais de Tokyo, is an opportunity to discover a plastic step and a personal universe from a familiar material.

Photo. Pascal Gillet

In the new spaces of the Palais de Tokyo, John Giorno presents a new chapter of his Poem Paintings, so extending his research. On the surface of canvases as well as in the monumental scale of the place, he balances his short, spontaneous, powerful poems. He exploits the very specific material and surface of the walls of the Palais de Tokyo, to stencil large letters, which through an interplay of colors and forms give the words back their full intensity and their expressive strength. With “the words of these drawings” – Thanx 4 Nothing, Life is a Killer, A Hurricane in a Drop of Cum, Just Say No to Family Values, Chacun est une Déception Totale– which in the context of the Palais de Tokyo are isolated and magnified, John Giorno yet again succeeds in stirring the poetic imagination and the benchmarks of writing. Recognized as one of the most influential poets of his generation, John Giorno has constantly made his work spill over from the book. For a few years now he has been creating visual poems entitled Poem Paintings from short fragments taken from his texts. Using a very special typography and layout, these elliptical, enigmatic aphorisms or brief sentences are projected on to the surface of a canvas or a wall. These poetic and visual art experiments thus take the poem off the page, confronting it with new contexts. This visual poetry that makes the acidity of the word resonate in strident colors in turn becomes the pictorial space. The writing now becomes a drawing, and the word becomes an image.

Born in 1936, John Giorno was a major figure in the New York underground of the 1960s, a friend of Andy Warhol(who filmed him sleeping in his famous Sleep, 1963) and Robert Rauschenberg as well as of William Burroughs, Allan Ginsberg and Brion Gysin, leading figures of the Beat Generation. In contact with them, he fed into his poetry using the cut-up method, a montage of found texts, and composed his first sound poems. He also thought up new extensions for poetry to make it accessible to everyone. As early as 1965, he founded Giorno Poetry Systems, a label that has issued around 40 albums. In 1968, he created Dial-A-Poem, a telephone poetry service offering audio poems. Dial-A-Poem 2012 retrospective is currently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Photo. Pascal Gillet

The vertical stage session sponsorised by Alfa Romeo cars present a 4 bands line up…  at the Palais de Tokyo!
— Brandumize
— The AikIu
— Discodeine
— Paraone

Photo. Pascal Gillet

BMW i stands for visionary electric cars and mobility services, inspiring design and a new understanding of premium that is strongly defined by sustainability. With BMW i the BMW Group is adopting an all-embracing approach, redefining the understanding of personal mobility with purpose-built vehicle concepts, a focus on sustainability throughout the value chain and a range of complementary mobility services.Sometimes it’s time to leave the city. Escape the restrictions of everyday life.

The BMW i8 Concept with eDrive is an icon of progress. It combines the energizing performance of a sports car with benchmark efficiency.
Presentation party at Palais de tokyo with dj Kavinski… drive!
Photo. Pascal Gillet

Style hunting before the Costume National show at Palais de Tokyo, 75016 Paris.
photo. Pascal Gillet

Costume National, Fall Winter 2013/14 women show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photo. Pascal Gillet

Veronique Leroy, backstage after show, FW 2013/14 , Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photo. Pascal Gillet

Veronique Leroy fall winter 2013/14 show at Palais de Tokyo.
Photo. Pascal Gillet

Alexis Mabille fall winter 20013/14 show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Photo. Pascal Gillet

Veronique Branquinho fall winter 2013/14 show at Palais de Tokyo, paris.
Photo. pascal Gillet

Interesting windows at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris… full of Sploosh, Krash, Shruuufff, wooooh!

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Books, postcards and a pillow selection at the palais de Tokyo library

Photo. pascal Gillet

Palais de Tokyo
13 Avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris

Zahia Spring Summer 2013 Couture Show at palais de Tokyo

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Zahia Spring Summer 2013 Couture Show at palais de Tokyo

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Zahia Spring Summer 2013 Couture Show setting at palais de Tokyo

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Zahia Spring Summer 2013 Couture Show backstage at palais de Tokyo

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Alexandre Vauthier SS 2013 Couture show at palais de Tokyo

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Jeudi dernier, le Palais de Tokyo inaugurait une oeuvre collective au sein de ses coulisses encore méconnues du grand public. Lek, Sowat, Dem189 et tout un tas de trublions issus de la scène graffiti se sont emparés de ce lieu sous terrain, froid et jusqu’alors inhabité. Le résultat est sidérant. La visite se fait sur rendez-vous et en petit groupe ce qui renchérit la dimension mystérieuse de cet espace déjà énigmatique. Les artistes se sont exprimés sur le moindre centimètre carré, du sol au plafond, laissant quelques surprises aux spectateurs les plus observateurs.Ce projet confronte des univers très différents où la violence rencontre quelques notes de douceur qui elle-même s’opposent à des représentations comiques ou ludiques. Les fresques s’entremêlent, se répondent et ne laissent pas indifférents. Alors que certains utilisent la craie ou le crayon, d’autres tapissent les murs de peintures à l’extincteur ou à la bombe. Cette oeuvre, dont on ne connait pas encore l’évolution (disparition ou mutation ?), fait échos à un autre projet de 2010 mené par Lek et Sowat, intitulé le Mausolée. Il s’agit d’une résidence artistique clandestine d’un an dans un espace de 40.000 m2 de ruines d’un supermarché du Nord de Paris. Ces deux artistes mènent en commun la pratique de l’Urbex, l’investissement de lieux en friche, chargés d’histoire – non sans rappeler le Palais de Tokyo, qui les accueille licitement.

Photo. Manon Gorgé

Lek, Sowat, Dem189
Dans les entrailles du Palais Secret
13, avenue du Président Wilson
75 116 Paris
07/12/2012 – 01/09/2013

Before the Thimister couture show, let’s hang around at the bookshop of Palais de Tokyo, for a press review…