With his Daft Punk helmet on, Bangalter had previously shaped the soundtrack for Hedi Slimane’s debut at Saint Laurent as well as mixing DP’s hits for Marc Jacobs’s kinky nurse show at Louis Vuitton back in 2007. This, though, was his first time presenting a newly composed piece to soundtrack a show under his own, solo, identity. He said: “There’s the beauty of fashion as an elegance manifesto and beauty manifesto. But also a collaborative art form and a transcontinental one: it has always resonated deeply with my sensibility.”
That this debut accompanied Morinaga’s latest collection was thanks to their meeting in Kyoto last year. There they worked in tandem on Mirage, a new ballet created and choreographed by Damien Jalet and performed by the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, with music by Bangalter and costume design by Morinaga. Bangalter said he saw a parallel between that ballet and this show as being “on the margin of experimentation.”
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He added: “You know performance art, dance, sculpture, music, sound design; when it starts to be on the margin in this experimental and exploratory aspect, that’s where I feel that it really becomes interesting. It’s outside of the traditional boxes: this is the idea of experimentation, almost from a prototyping perspective. This collection resonated with me because it’s avant garde, and at the same time it’s an extremely sensory experience that is extremely accessible. I’ve always loved experimental approaches that are open.”
This Anrealage collection was entitled Screen, and the thought process behind it resonated with Bangalter. “You think about how people are interconnected, and the importance of people’s portable devices—their phones and screens—and then consider the idea of getting out of that framework, imagining how to interact through different technology and craft and traditional techniques, and at the same time experimenting, thinking outside of this box and trying to break those virtual interconnections to create a more tangible human connection,” he said. “It’s the duty of artists and creators today to bridge human beings with human beings and culture with culture as well. And what resonated also was to have this collection shown in a European, but yet also American Christian setting as well. It becomes this kind of mash up of different inspirations, and all in a very tolerant manner.”
Bangalter was in the audience today, and before the show started said “I’ll be very happy to witness it. It’s this one of a kind moment. We are in an on-demand world, and obviously the collection and the event will be filmed. But also it will happen only once, and that’s part of the beauty of it.”
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