Photography by Alexandre Ean, Styling by Maud Dupuy, Text by Simon Johannin
Parisians. Elegance, style, composure, taste and culture.
But Paris is not just about the prohibitive cafés of the Rive Gauche, keeping tourists
in the illusion of an intimacy with the ghosts of Simone de Beauvoir or Miles Davis.
Beyond this world famous postcard, there are us, the alive,
walking in the streets. And we mostly come from someplace else.
Kids from French countrysides, from the South cities, from Spain or Georgia.
From Parents who grew up in other languages.
Parisians forever, always, or just for a time, we came
to grab a piece of a dream, of an ambition, or to escape from something.
We came because we want to live. Since nothing is yet established,
we’d better try everything, allow ourselves to do anything.
For the best and the worst, for the violence and the joy, this city where money and misery
run the same river belongs to us as much as we belong to her.
We are pieces of today’s youth, and we will write, sing, play, share the fragment of
that history that belongs to us.
Paris is us too, just as much as the others, and will be what we want her to be,
just as much as we are what she wants us to be.
LIZA RIVZ : techno performer
dress CORALIE MARABELLE
MAXENCE DUMAS & ALEX BASILAIA / REVOLTING SILENCE: independent music label and book publisher
Maxence: jacket BOUTET / Alex: jacket GAMUT
SIMON JOHANNIN: writer of “L”été des charognes” and “Nino dans la nuit”, and soon to be published (08/10) “Nous sommes maintenant nos êtres chers”
shirt MOOHONG
AMBRE HAZLEWOOD: music performer and muse
shirt ALPHONSE MAITREPIERRE
LÉONIE CHAUCHAT: ceramist
dress CORALIE MARABELLE, apron MAISON STANDARDS
PIMPANT BOY: stick n poke artist
shirt MOOHONG, pants HENRIK VIBSKOV VINTAGE, glasses GUCCI VINTAGE, shoes GUCCI VINTAGE
MANON MESSIANT: film producer
suit HENRIK VIBSKOV ARCHIVE, top & OTHERS STORIES
JANIE: pop singer
vintage set CHINEMACHINE
dress THIERRY MUGLER VINTAGE
NAOMI GUNTHER: cloth designer
shirt GUNTHER
VALENTIN NOUJAÏM: filmmaker
total look VINTAGE
SIMON CHAOUAT: designer, constructor
jacket SMALTO
jacket MAISON STANDARDS, pants are model’s own
INGRID SAMITIER: music performer (Les Vulves Assassines, Oeuf)
lingerie EXPOSED PARIS
MÉGANE FERRAT: comedian
total look model’s own
ITO: rapper
total look UMBRO
shirt SUPERVINTAG, pants UMBRO
BGM: manager
jacket NBA, pants ADIDAS
BLK: rapper
t- shirt VERSACE SPORT VINTAGE, tracksuit Stylist’s own, glasses CAZAL