An interesting piece about the iconic Paris nightclub, Le Palace, playground of Thierry Mugler, and Roland Barthes…
For five years from its opening in March 1978 Le Palace in Paris ruled as Europe’s most fashionable nightclub, creating its own myth as much by throwing couturier balls as by cladding its cool staff in crimson and gold tunics designed by the young Thierry Mugler. Only France’s most influential semiotician could possibly deconstruct such an existential experience. So Vogue-Hommes sent along Roland Barthes, renowned for declaring the “death of the author”, to wonder whether he would encounter Marcel Proust…
Find out what Barthes felt about this ““immense spectacle of lights playing over bodies”…

Via Shapers of the 80s

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