If it’s fashionable to be immersive, Hedi Slimane is à la mode. His menswear show for Celine involved a takeover of the Paris nightspot Le Palace, where on the opening night back in 1978 Grace Jones had her clothes torn off by the plastered crowd and was covered by Yves Saint Laurent, on hand with a well-placed cummerbund.
Downstairs, almost 50 years later, the place was still fabulous and bedecked with sequins. With a fashion show, gig and party, Slimane’s mission – along with showing the clothes for autumn 2023 – was to create a disco to die for, a playground for the era’s new club kids.
