Founded over 125 years ago, Galeries Lafayette has always been a showcase for French creativity in its most vibrant and unique forms. From July 5th to August 31st, the quintessential Parisian department store is celebrating the new “French Touch” in fashion, beauty, homeware and food, with a range of iconic brands, personalities and collectives.
The flagship store’s panoramic rooftop terrace will be staging this summer’s hottest event, with an exciting and original line-up of both established artists and emerging young talent from the French music scene. Take a look!
ON STAGE
Galeries Lafayette is celebrating French creativity in music, film and technology with an arts festival on the Paris Haussmann store’s panoramic rooftop terrace.
At the end of each day, a classic French film will be screened in partnership with Gaumont, followed at nightfall by a live concert. And to round off each evening, a DJ set – in partnership with Yves Saint Laurent Beauté – will then transform the rooftop terrace into an outdoor dance floor. From electronic music and rap to nouvelle chanson, the exceptional line-up highlights both the diversity and distinctiveness of the French music scene, with artists like Yseult, Sofiane Pamart, Étienne de Crécy, Bon Entendeur, Kiddy Smile, Pedro Winter, Julien Granel, Dabeull and Rad Cartier.
Free of charge and open to everyone who signs up online, the festival promises to provide fresh insight into the faces and facets that make France unique.
UNDER THE DOME
Paris-based design duo Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard of Studio GGSV will create an exclusive in-store installation as a tribute to contemporary creation inside an historical art nouveau building. Inspired by the building’s history and architecture, Studio GGSV is taking over three iconic spaces in the Paris Haussmann store to create a unique dialogue between their own aesthetic universe and Galeries Lafayette’s.
The duo is also inaugurating “Stairway To Heaven”, a permanent artistic commission for one of the store’s historic staircases. Through a trompe-l’oeil fresco inspired by Galeries Lafayette’s unique architectural and decorative heritage, a strange and wondrous landscape unfolds floor by floor, conjuring up worlds with mercurial notions of materiality.
FASHION SELECTION
Shopping enthusiasts can choose from a selection of iconic brands and emerging labels reflecting multiple inspirations – from boho chic to effortless chic, and pastel shades to blocks of vibrant color for a contemporary, stylish look that is 100% French. Fashion for the city, the countryside or the beach, brands like Nodaleto, Casablanca, Martin Martin, Magali Pascal, Green Barbès, Talm, Epycure and many more will be on display.
WHAT’S MORE?
Patou leather goods and accessories will be available at a new pop-up on the ground floor of the flagship Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann store throughout the French Touch event. The French Touch is also celebrating young designers, turning the spotlight on the collections designed by Master of Arts graduates from the French Fashion Institute (IFM), the culmination of two years of advanced learning in design, research and innovation.
And much more awaits to be experienced at this creative assembly of French heritage and modern culture.
For more information, please visit: https://www.atout-france.fr/.
