In a room beautifully filled with the work of photographer Dani d'Ingeo and absolute muse/ painteress Ines Michelotto

Curated by Kai Isaiah Jamal

The Pique Nique dress was the closing look of Le Monique Chic Show, a cabaret inspired fashion performance played in Paris in September 2023.

A quartet of Pique Nique Performers - Corbeille, Chris, Tallulah and Mars - were balancing nibbles on their dress, sensually strolling and engaging with the audience, feeding them with grace and petit four.

The pique nique dress brought performers and viewers together. It invites the public to enter the world of Le Monique Chic Show, a world of fantasy and desire were communities are built.

The show has been deeply inspired by the people around me, performers and cabaret artists. It is an ode to friendship and a celebration of collaboration.

I see these wearable sculptures as a tool of empowerment. Wearing latex in a unique experience.

Latex is like no other medium. This natural material behave as a second skin. It reacts and adapt to the body. The latex is stretched into a precarious table table that balances itself with grace and follow the wearer's movements. The silhouette reminds us of the Bauhaus costume parties while also playfully referencing fetish and forniphilia - the fantasy of dressing up as a furniture.

It shows softness, vulnerability and emphasis being sexy in a different way, sexy for yourself.

Photo credit - Sophie Stafford