Paris Design Week 2025: the DESIGN DISCO CLUB exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations

It's back-to-school time for design, and Paris is decking itself out in all its finery from September 4 to 13, 2025, for Paris Design Week. The tone is set: for ten days, the City of Light transforms itself into an XXL showcase for contemporary design. Furnishings, fashion, architecture, new technologies... everything that stirs creative minds is invited to exhibitions, talks, workshops and artistic installations, often open to the public. All scattered around the city, in iconic galleries, ephemeral showrooms, confidential addresses or simply unsuspected ones. Paris becomes an immense open space, where each district reveals its treasures, between design discoveries and arty interludes.

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One of the hottest spots at each edition is Lafayette Anticipations, which is shaking up conventional wisdom with DESIGN DISCO CLUB, a vitamin-packed temporary exhibition by Pli office and JTM, on view from September 6 to 12. Pulsed by the free, flamboyant energy of disco - a nod to the 1976 hit Disco Inferno - this installation is a vibrant manifesto for young designers, offering a new, more human tempo to an era in search of new inspiration. In the spotlight, some 40 designers, architects and artists explore a theme as universal as it is plastic - time. Time is the cadence of our lives, shaping our gestures, influencing our choices... but here, it takes a poetic spin. Inspired by Baudelaire's poem L'Horloge, Paf Atelier's scenography takes visitors into a fragmented mental space, where the hours dislocate, freeze and repeat themselves. Time becomes matter, to be twisted, slowed down or suspended.

In a setting somewhere between a black box and a dancefloor, harsh lights, a deep blue floor and contrasting textures create an atmosphere both festive and melancholy. Taut lines shape the space like a rhythm, as visitors wander through a galaxy of objects, sometimes isolated, sometimes in dialogue, like the beats of an out-of-tune tempo. Here, we no longer read the time, we feel it.

In terms of casting, it's a grand slam: Uchronia, Soft Baroque, Samy Rio, Lambert & Fils, Petite Friture alongside major fashion houses and labels such as Marine Serre, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Mugler. All present strong pieces, between the past and a vision of the future, for a design that is assertive, committed and assertive.

And to extend the experience, the space offers a program of meetings and collective reflections on architecture, design and fashion, devised by Christopher Dessus, with Isabelle Moisy-Cobti and the Fonds de Dotation Quartus.

DESIGN DISCO CLUB? A lively scene where design can be heard, seen and, above all, felt.